28But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
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I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 26-31)We have here the blessed Jesus, the Lamb of God, led as a lamb to the slaughter , to the sacrifice. It is strange with what expedition they went through his trial; how they could do so much work in such a little time, though they had so many great men to deal with, attendance on whom is usually a work of time. He was brought before the chief priests at break of day (Luke 22:66), after that to Pila…
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