Do the commentaries help? I have told you before, use the commentaries when you have done the work on the passage. Otherwise we are prey to what the commentators tell us and we don’t know how to refute them. What follows has been clipped from …
Green & Dry Gems
Bible Gem 1260 – If this happens when the Tree is Green, what will happen when it is Dry? (Luke 23:31)
Last Gem I gave you some quotes from the Bible and some idioms in English which involve “green” and “dry”. It is to do with the points of comparison. As I have been teaching Deeper Bible students, when you encounter a word picture or comparative …
Bible Gem 1261 – Did you find the Gold? Were you able to separate it from the dross? (Luke 23:31)
For if these things are done when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry? ” Luke 23:31 What an enigmatic verse this is? What on earth does Jesus mean by this statement? It is obtuse because Jesus is making an allusion …
Bible Gem 1262 – Jesus’ use of Green and Dry (Luke 23:31)
As they led Jesus away, a man named Simon, who was from Cyrene, happened to be coming in from the countryside. The soldiers seized him and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus. A large crowd trailed behind, including many …