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But Jesus, turning to them, said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, don`t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
Daughters of Jerusalem. Women of Jerusalem. This was a common mode of speaking among the Hebrews.
Weep for yourselves, and…
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…
19th Century
Anglican
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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Baptist
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…
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 …
16th Century
Protestant
Weep not. Some have thought that the women are reproved because they foolishly and inconsiderately poured out tears to n…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
