Luke 23:27-31
23:28 a Jesus warned of the horrors that would come to Jerusalem during its siege and destruction in AD 70.23:29 b Fortunate indeed are the women who are childless: Childlessness was normally a cause of great shame (see study note on 1:7), but during this catastrophe, those who didn’t have to see their children starve to death would be the fortunate ones.
23:30 c People will beg the mountains, ‘Fall on us’: Death would be better than the extended agony and suffering that Jerusalem would experience.
23:31 d If the Romans crucified an innocent man when the tree was green (i.e., during a period of relative peace), what more horrible things would they do when it was dry (i.e., when the land had become a tinderbox of revolution)? During the siege of Jerusalem (AD 66–70), the Romans crucified thousands of Jews outside the city of Jerusalem.
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