Luke 23:31

For if such things are done ¹  when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?” ² 

Pr 11:31; Jer 25:29; Eze 15:2-7; Eze 20:47,48; Eze 21:3,4; Da 9:26; Mt 3:12; Joh 15:6; Heb 6:8; 1Pe 4:17,18; Jude 1:12

¹ tn Grk “if they do such things.” The plural subject here is indefinite, so the active voice has been translated as a passive (see ExSyn 402).

² sn The figure of the green wood and the dry has been variously understood. Most likely the picture compares the judgment on Jesus as the green (living) wood to the worse judgment that will surely come for the dry (dead) wood of the nation.