Just before the crucifixion from Luke 23:28... "weep not for me, weep for youselves, and for your children." Does that sound like good news for mankind to you?
Did Jesus get it backwards, or are we being taught backwards?
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2007-09-03 09:03:22 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He got it just right!
2007-09-03 09:10:17 · answer #1 · answered by pangie 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Lk 23:26 As they led Jesus away, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country just then, was forced to follow Jesus and carry his cross. 27 Great crowds trailed along behind, including many grief-stricken women. 28 But Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For the days are coming when they will say, ‘Fortunate indeed are the women who are childless, the wombs that have not borne a child and the breasts that have never nursed.’ 30 People will beg the mountains to fall on them and the hills to bury them. 31 For if these things are done when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
This is speaking of the fall of Jerusalem that happened about 40 years following Jesus' death.
2007-09-03 16:14:09 · answer #2 · answered by mesquiteskeetr 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, He didn't get it backwards. He even went on to say, "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do." It was the ultimate sacrifice.
Here is the whole verse.
Luke 23:28 (King James Version)
But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
2007-09-03 16:08:15 · answer #3 · answered by ♥Sunny Girl♥ 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Meditate....quiet your mind.....and ask him yourself.
The books are only years and years of interpretations of stories that were handed down from many, many people a VERY LONG time ago.
Ask God with an OPEN HEART and a QUIET MIND and you will receive the answers in the same way that Jesus received HIS answers.
2007-09-03 16:35:25 · answer #4 · answered by PG 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you are smart enough to know that you must read the verse within its context. Post the entire situation and the verse will explain itself. You also should know what happened after Jesus was crucified and hopefully you also know that Jerusalem fell some decades later. Don't you find it amazing that Jesus knew what he was talking about?
2007-09-03 16:10:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
You might as well ask a similar question about any
character in some novel; Charles Dickens, William
"Makepeace" Thackeray... Stephen King.
Choose your own favorite.
But, because there is no proof that the man who'd
claimed to be "the son of God" actually existed...
your question is a moot point.
Peace.
2007-09-03 16:13:30 · answer #6 · answered by Pete K 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
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 desolation of their city by the Romans.
2007-09-03 16:11:41 · answer #7 · answered by Cookyduster 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was referring to when the phony Christ comes and would fool most people into believing that He (satan ) is the real Christ. Again Atheistic proselytizing and twisting the meaning of scripture to facilitate same.
2007-09-03 16:12:03 · answer #8 · answered by swindled 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, He did not get it backwards. GO back, read the entire passage, and try to comprehend the message.
2007-09-03 16:10:10 · answer #9 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The funny thing is, he thought god was going to save him at the last moment.
When he was about to die, he yelled out "Eli lama sabacthani" cause he didn't understand why god wasn't coming to his rescue.
But church folks have some other contorted explanation.
2007-09-03 16:14:25 · answer #10 · answered by 2.71828182845904 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus never got nothing backwards.
2007-09-03 16:08:51 · answer #11 · answered by parkituse j 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋