Luke 23:31 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) For if people are doing these things [to me] while the [leaves of the] tree are green [i.e., to someone innocent of wrongdoing], what will they do when [the leaves] are dried up [i.e., to the sinful Jews of Jerusalem]?” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For if they do these things when the timber is green, what will happen when it is dry? American Standard Version (1901) For if they do these things in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry? Common English Bible If they do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?” Catholic Public Domain Version For if they do these things with green wood, what will be done with the dry?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For if in the green wood they do these things, what shall be done in the dry? |
His winnowing shovel [Note: This was a process whereby grain was tossed into the air so that the wind could blow the husks away, leaving only good grain on the ground] is in His hand and He will completely clear off His threshing floor [by removing all of the husks]. And He will gather His wheat into the barn, but will burn up the husks with a fire that will never go out.”
Then they will begin to say to the mountains [Hosea 10:8], ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us [up].’
And two other men, who were criminals, were also led out with Jesus to be put to death.
If a person does not remain united to me, he will be thrown out as a [fruitless] branch and dried up. People gather up such branches and throw them into the fire to be burned [as fuel (?)].
But if the land produces [only] thorns and thistles, it is worthless and in danger of being cursed [by God], and will end up being burned.
These people are like rotten spots [contaminating the food] at your love feasts, while they gorge themselves without fear [i.e., unashamed of their selfish indulgence]. [Note: This passage may mean “like selfish shepherds, looking out only for themselves,” even eating the grain set out for the animals]. They are like clouds that blow over without producing rain; [they are like] trees in the fall that do not produce any fruit and have been uprooted, [thus] being dead twice [i.e., fruitless and rootless].