What does Luke 23:28 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"But Jesus turning unto them said,Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children."
Verse 28. _WEEP NOT FOR ME_] Many pious persons have been greatly distressed in their minds, because they could not weep on reading or hearing of the _sufferings of Christ_. For the relief of all such...
DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM - Women of Jerusalem. This was a common mode of speaking among the Hebrews. WEEP FOR YOURSELVES ... - This refers to the calamities that were about to come upon them in the des...
CHAPTER 23 _ 1. The son of man before Pilate and Herod. (Luke 23:1)_ 2. Pilate Yields to the People's Will; Barabbas Freed and the Son of man Condemned. (Luke 23:13) 3. The Crucifixion of the Son O...
THE JOURNEY TO CALVARY. To the incidents of Simon of Cyrene and the two malefactors (Mark 15:21 *, Matthew 27:32 *), Lk. adds that of the women of Jerusalem. Note that the people of the city are here...
TRIAL BEFORE PILATE AND SILENCE BEFORE HEROD (Luke 23:1-12)...
DAUGHTERS, &c. Not therefore the women from Galilee of verses: Luke 23:49; Luke 23:55. Greek. _me._ App-105. FOR. on, or over. _Greek. epi._ App-104. CHILDREN. Greek. Plural of _teknon._ App-108....
_turning unto them said_ The only recorded words between His condemnation and crucifixion. Pity wrung from Him the utterance which anguish and violence had failed to extort. _Daughters of Jerusalem_...
SIMON THE CYRENIAN. THE DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM...
VER 26. AND AS THEY LED HIM AWAY, THEY LAID HOLD UPON ONE SIMON, A CYRENIAN, COMING OUT OF THE COUNTRY, AND ON HIM THEY LAID THE CROSS, THAT HE MIGHT BEAR IT AFTER JESUS. 27. AND THERE FOLLOWED HIM A...
ΣΤΡΑΦΕΊΣ _aor. pass. part. (сопутств.) от_ ΣΤΡΈΦΩ (G4762) поворачивать; _pass._ с возвр. _знач._ поворачиваться, оборачиваться, обращаться к кому-л. (BAGD). ΚΛΑΊΕΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΚΛΑΊΩ (G27...
DISCOURSE: 1584 CHRIST’S ADDRESS TO THE WOMEN WHO LAMENTED HIM Luke 23:27. _And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus turning unt...
WEEP NOT FOR ME, &C.— "Though my death affects you, and seems to call for all your tears, yet it is rather a reason for joy than sorrow, as it will be a means of reconciling the world to God: rather r...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Impaled (Luke 23:26-49) 26 And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind J...
And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, For the exposition see the notes at ; For the exposition, see the notes at John 18:38; John 19:1. This epis...
26 Compare Mat_27:32; Mar_15:21; Joh_19:17. 26 Tradition has sought to surround the cross with a false glamour by making it cross-shaped, instead of a single upright stake. The word "cross" itself ha...
TRIAL BEFORE PILATE AND HEROD. THE CRUCIFIXION AND BURIAL 1-5. The trial before Pilate begins (Matthew 27:1; Matthew 27:11; Mark 15:1; John 18:28). See on Mt and Jn....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 23 PILATE EXAMINES JESUS 23:1-7 V1 The whole group rose up and took Jesus to Pilate. V2 They began to accuse him. ‘We caught this man because he is c...
(24-28) AND PILATE GAVE SENTENCE. — See Notes on Matthew 27:24; Mark 15:15. St. Luke’s account is here the briefest of the four, St. John’s by far the fullest. Here we read nothing of the outrages of...
_On the way to the cross_ (Matthew 27:31-34; Mark 15:21)....
“THEY CRUCIFIED THE LORD OF GLORY” Luke 23:26-34 Simon's two sons are believed to have become Christians. See Mark 15:21; Romans 16:13. Perhaps this strange interruption in his ordinary experiences...
This is the story of the Cross, and, as in dealing with other Gospels, it is best read in reverent quietness and meditation. We see all the forces of evil as represented in the Jewish priests and in P...
_Weep not over me. If you knew the evils that threaten and must soon fall upon your city, upon yourselves, and upon you children, you would preserve your tears to deplore your own misfortunes. My deat...
CHAPTER 27. JESUS LED TO CALVARY Matthew 27:31-34; Mark 15:20-23; Luke 23:26-33; John 19:16-17. “ _And they took Jesus_, _and led Him away_, _carrying His cross_.” MARK: “ _And when they mocked Him_,...
1 _st. Luke 23:26-32_. The punishment required to be inflicted outside the city (Lev 24:14); it was the type of exclusion from human society (Hebrews 13). John 19:17 informs us that Jesus went out of...
"And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus. (27) And there followed him a great...
The last chapter gave in the judgment of present things, another world and eternal things in good and evil, the Lord's instruction for the disciples after the dealings of grace in Luke 15:1-32, and th...
_TRUE PATRIOTISM_ ‘Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for Me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.’ Luke 23:28 He came to His own full of griefs, full of love, of purpose, and lofty inspir...
28._Weep not. _Some have thought that the _women _are reproved, because foolishly and inconsiderately they poured out _tears _to no purpose. On the contrary, Christ does not simply reprove them, as if...
The Gentiles, however, are not presented in this Gospel as being voluntarily guilty. We see, no doubt, an indifference which is flagrant injustice in a case like this, and an insolence which nothing c...
BUT JESUS TURNING UNTO THEM,.... These women being behind Christ, at the back of him; and he knowing who they were, and what they were doing, turns himself to them, and addressed them in the following...
But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. Ver. 28. _Weep not for me_] We are not so much to lament Christ's dolorous s...
_But Jesus turning, said_, &c. Jesus, who ever felt the woes of others more than he did his own, forgetting his distress at the very time that it lay heaviest upon him, turned about, and with a benevo...
WEEP FOR YOURSELVES, AND FOR YOUR CHILDREN; on account of the great calamities that were coming upon them....
THE CRUCIFIXION, DEATH, AND BURIAL OF CHRIST. The sympathy of the women:...
DELIVERED TO PONTIUS PILATE (vs.1-5) It was still early morning when the Lord Jesus was brought to the judgment hall of Pilate, the Roman governor (John 18:28), for the Jews were determined to quick...
26-31 We have here 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 pitied him. But the death of Christ was his v...
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THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS (23:26-33). The moment that this last part of the Gospel has been building up to has now come. Jesus had spoken of His trials and temptations (Luke 22:28), and of the sufferin...
Luke 23:26-32. THE WAY TO THE CRUCIFIXION. Here Luke is most full, but gives no support to the various legends of the _Via Dolorosa._...
TURNING (στραφεις). Luke is fond of this second aorist passive participle of στρεφω (Luke 7:9; Luke 7:44; Luke 7:55; Luke 10:23). If he had been still carrying the Cross, he could not have made thi...
Luke 23:28 Lessons of the Passion. We have in this passage two lessons before us. I. The first is the right and wrong view of Christ's Passion: "Weep not over Me, weep for yourselves." These women w...
Luke 23:1 , _And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate. And they began to accuse him saying, We found this_ Put in what word you like villains scoundrel our translators could not...
CONTENTS: Jesus before Pilate and Herod. Barabbas released and Jesus condemned. The cricifixion and entombment. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Pilate, Caesar, Herod, Barabbas, Simon, two thieves, Joseph. CONCLU...
Luke 23:12. _The same day Pilate and Herod were made friends._ This occurrence is quoted in Acts 4:27, as an accomplishment of the prophecy in the second psalm. Luke 23:22. _He said to them the third...
THEY TOOK JESUS AWAY. The most complete notes on the Crucifixion are found in Matthew 27:32-56. A LARGE CROWD OF PEOPLE FOLLOWED HIM. This shows that Jesus had a lot of sympathizers in Jerusalem. WOME...
_Daughters of Jerusalem_ THE DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM I. WHY DID THE DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM WEEP? 1. He was innocent. All they had heard about Him was favourable. 2. He was benevolent. His gifts wer...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 23:27 Jesus quotes from Zechariah 12:10. THE DAYS ARE COMING. See Luke 19:43; Luke 21:6, Luke 21:22. “BLESSED ARE THE BARREN.” See note on 21:23. In those days, the “reproach” of chi...
JESUS IS LED AWAY TO BE CRUCIFIED MATTHEW 27:32-44; MARK 15:21-32; LUKE 23:26-43; JOHN 19:17-22; MATTHEW 27:32 And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to be...
CHAPTER 23 VER. 39. _And one of the malefactors which were hanged_ (this one, according to tradition, hung on the left hand of Christ) _railed_ _on Him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 23:26. SIMON, A CYRENIAN.—Rather, “of Cyrene” (R.V.). There was a colony of Jews in Cyrene, and they had a synagogue in Jerusalem (Acts 6:9; Acts 11:20). Probably he had come up...
EXPOSITION LUKE 23:1 _The trial before Pilate_:_ First examination._ LUKE 23:1 AND THE WHOLE MULTITUDE OF THEM AROSE, AND LED HIM UNTO PILATE. The Sanhedrin had now formally condemned Jesus to dea...
And the whole multitude of them arose, and they led him unto Pilate. And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and sayi...
Song of Solomon 1:5; Song of Solomon 2:7; Song of Solomon 3:10; Song of Solomon 3:5; Song of Solomon 5:16; Song of Solomon 5:8; Song of Solomon 8:4...
THE SUFFERING CHRIST Luke 23:11 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When Christ came down to this earth; He who was holy, who knew no sin, suffered all the sorrows that sin brought into a world of shame and of wick...