Luke 23:28

28. Daughters of Jerusalem A beautiful but now a sad title. It means

heiresses of woe. Weep not for me A mere natural sympathy awakened even over the narrative of the Saviour’s crucifixion, though serving to attract attention to the solemn subject, and to be the entrance to deeper views, has in itself no saving power.

But weep for yourselves The Saviour does not condemn their tears for him, but warns them that they have not more than enough for their own fate.

And for your children The younger married persons in this crowd probably saw and shared in the woes of the destruction of Jerusalem forty years later. But it must have been mostly the generation of their children who suffered the destruction itself.