Luke 23:29 Meaning and Explanation
“For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.”
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Read Full Chapter →Jesus foretells days so terrible that the childless, ordinarily counted unblessed, will be called blessed.
What Does Luke 23:29 Mean?
In Israel children were the great blessing and barrenness a grief. Jesus announces a coming inversion: days when people will say, blessed are the barren. He speaks of the siege soon to engulf Jerusalem, when those with little ones to watch suffer would fare hardest (compare Luke 21:23).
Within a generation the city fell, and the horror of those days proved his words sober truth. The saying remains a window into the grief of Jesus: he takes no pleasure in judgment, and he warns precisely because he loves. The Savior's tears and the Savior's warnings rise from the same heart.
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What does Luke 23:29 mean?
Jesus foretells days so terrible that the childless, ordinarily counted unblessed, will be called blessed.