LUKE 23:31 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?”
For if people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry — the green tree/dry tree proverb: if the Romans execute an innocent man (the green tree, the living, fruitful) during the relative calm of a subject state, what will they do to the guilty (the dry tree, the flammable, the ready-to-burn) in full rebellion? The proverb anticipates the 70 CE destruction.
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