Luke 23:31 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³¹ 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 versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ For if they do these things when the timber is green, what will happen when it is dry?

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ For if they do these things in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry?

Common English Bible

³¹ If they do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ For if they do these things with green wood, what will be done with the dry?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³¹ For if in the green wood they do these things, what shall be done in the dry?

Luke 23:31 Cross References

Matthew 3:12

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.”

Luke 23:30

Then they will begin to say to the mountains [Hosea 10:8], ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us [up].’

Luke 23:32

And two other men, who were criminals, were also led out with Jesus to be put to death.

John 15:6

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 (?)].

Hebrews 6:8

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.

Jude 1:12

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].