Turning (στραφεις). Luke is fond of this second aorist passive participle of στρεφω (7:9,44,55; 10:23). If he had been still carry…

Daughters of Jerusalem. Women of Jerusalem. This was a common mode of speaking among the Hebrews.

Weep for yourselves, and…

Daughters of Jerusalem.—It is characteristic of the tenderness of our Lord’s sympathy that these were the first words recorded as …

And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughte…

Glossa Ordinaria: Having related the condemnation of Christ, Luke naturally goes on to speak of His crucifixion, as it is said…

As Jesus heads to Calvary, Luke records an incident that expresses Jesus’ concern for the fate of Jerusalem (cf. 19:41–44; 21:20–24). Jewish women …

Weep not. Some have thought that the women are reproved because they foolishly and inconsiderately poured out tears to n…

But Jesus turning to them
These women being behind Christ, at the back of him; and he knowing who they were, and wha…

Here we have the blessed Jesus, the Lamb of God, led as a lamb to the slaughter, to the sacrifice. Though many reproached and reviled him, yet some…