Luke 23:30

"For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’"

Key Reflection

This passage suggests a future time when societal values will shift, valuing those who have not borne children over those who have. In this context, Jesus highlights the paradox of blessing the barren, foreshadowing a world where spiritual barrenness or emptiness is preferred to physical fertility and responsibility, emphasizing the kingdom of God's unexpected reversal of human norms.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 30. To the mountains, Fall on us, &c. This is an image of great calamities and judgments. So great will be the calamities that they will seek for shelter from the storm, and will call on the hills to protect them. The same figure is used respecting the wicked in the day of judgment in Re 6:16,17. Compare also Is 2:21 {z} "Then shall they begin" Isa 2:19; Ho 10:8; Re 16:6; 9:6 __________________________________________________________________

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