Luke 23:29

Luke 23:29. Bays are coming. As certainly coming, as He was going to death.

They shall say. ‘They' refers to those in Jerusalem, especially the women in Jerusalem, at the time foretold. His disciples would not be there, and there is here implied a warning to escape. But the whole tone of the prediction implies also that few of them do so.

Blessed, etc. A fearful woe is introduced by the word ‘Blessed.' Hosea 9:12-16, contains the same thought as this verse. The days will be so terrible that it will be a curse to be a mother instead of a blessing. When being a mother is reckoned a curse, the days are indeed evil!