Luke 23:28

Luke 23:28. Daughters of Jerusalem. A natural address, but solemn and pointing to their relation to a doomed city.

Weep not for me. Comp. Hebrews 12:2. He not only endures the cross, but forgets His sorrows, so heavy, to tell the truth to those who manifested for Him only a human sympathy.

But weep for yourselves. Appropriate words for those who even now make of the crucifixion a mere popular tragedy. Doubtless many of these very women lived until the siege of Jerusalem, about forty years afterwards, but the catastrophe was to fall most directly upon their children: and for your children. Comp. Matthew 27:25: ‘His blood be on us and on our children.'