Charles Spurgeon Commentary Luke 23:30-31

"Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry?" — Luke 23:30-31 (ASV)

Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree what shall be done in the dry?

If they do these things while the Jewish State is still standing, what will they do when that State is broken up? If they do these things to innocent persons, a green tree, what will they do to the unhallowed person, the ungodly and the rebellious, who are like dry, rotten trees? How will the flame take hold of those branches from which the sap of virtue has long ago been dried?