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A Prophetic Warning
Commentators universally agree that Jesus is redirecting the women's grief from his present suffering to a future, greater catastrophe. He prophetically warns of the horrific destruction of Jerusalem (which occurred in A.D. 70), urging them to weep for the immense suffering that they and their children would face because of the nation's rejection of him.
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Albert Barnes
On Luke 23:28
18th Century
Theologian
Daughters of Jerusalem. Women of Jerusalem. This was a common mode of speaking among the Hebrews.
Weep for yourselves, and…
AT Robertson
On Luke 23:28
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…
Charles Ellicott
On Luke 23:28
19th Century
Bishop
Daughters of Jerusalem.—It is characteristic of the tenderness of our Lord’s sympathy that these were the first words recorded as …
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Charles Spurgeon
On Luke 23:27–31
19th Century
Preacher
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…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Luke 23:28
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 …
John Calvin
On Luke 23:28
16th Century
Theologian
Weep not. Some have thought that the women are reproved because they foolishly and inconsiderately poured out tears to n…
John Gill
On Luke 23:28
17th Century
Pastor
But Jesus turning to them
These women being behind Christ, at the back of him; and he knowing who they were, and wha…
Matthew Henry
On Luke 23:26–31
17th Century
Minister
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…