SEV Biblia, Chapter 23:28
Mas Jess, vuelto a ellas, les dijo: Hijas de Jerusaln, no me lloris a mí, mas llorad por vosotras mismas, y por vuestros hijos.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Luke 23:28
Verse 28. Weep not for me] Many pious persons have been greatly distressed in their minds, because they could not weep on reading or hearing of the sufferings of Christ. For the relief of all such, let it be for ever known that no human spirit can possibly take any part in the passion of the Messiah. His sufferings were such as only God manifested in the flesh could bear; and, as they were all of an expiatory nature, no man can taste of or share in them. Besides, the sufferings of Christ are not a subject of sorrow to any man; but, on the contrary, of eternal rejoicing to the whole of a lost world. Some have even prayed to participate in the sufferings of Christ. The legend of St. Francis and his stigmata is well known.-He is fabled to have received the marks in his hands, feet, and side. Relative to this point, there are many unwarrantable expressions used by religious people in their prayers and hymns. To give only one instance, how often do we hear these or similar words said or sung:-" Give me to feel thy agonies! One drop of thy sad cup afford!" Reader! one drop of this cup would bear down thy soul to endless ruin; and these agonies would annihilate the universe. He suffered alone: for of the people there was none with him; because his sufferings were to make an atonement for the sins of the world: and in the work of redemption he had no helper.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 28. But Jesus turning unto them , etc.] These women being behind Christ, at the back of him; and he knowing who they were, and what they were doing, turns himself to them, and addressed them in the following manner: and said, daughters of Jerusalem ; or ye Jerusalem women; just as the inhabitants of Jerusalem are called daughters of Zion in ( Isaiah 3:16) weep not for me ; signifying, that they need not be under any concern on his account, for he was very willing to die; he desired nothing more; this was that he came into the world about; nor was he afraid to die; death was no king of terrors to him; he went to the cross with the greatest courage and intrepidity: besides, his sufferings, though he knew they would be very great and painful, yet that they would be soon over; nor could he be long held in the power of death, but would be raised again, and go to his Father, and be exalted at his right hand, and which should be matter of joy: to which might be added, that hereby his Father's counsels and covenant, purposes and promises, would have their accomplishment, the law would be fulfilled, justice satisfied, and all the perfections of God glorified, and the salvation of his chosen people effected; which, as it was the joy set before him, is a ground of rejoicing to believers: not that weeping on account of his sufferings and death was sinful; for he had offered prayers to God with cries and tears himself on this head; nor that it was altogether unreasonable, stupid, and preposterous; but Christ's meaning is, that when things were rightly considered, there would be great reason to assuage their grief, on this account, and rather express it on another; but weep for yourselves, and for your children ; not themselves personally, but their nation and posterity; and either for sin, their own, and others; the sins of professors, and of the profane; particularly the sin of crucifying him, which would be more injurious to that people than to him, and do them more hurt than him, since they had imprecated his blood upon them, and their children; or rather, and chiefly on account of those distresses and calamities, that would come upon them, in a short time, for their rejection and crucifixion of him; on account of which he himself had wept over Jerusalem, and its inhabitants, ( Luke 19:41,42).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 26-31 - We have here the blessed Jesus, the Lamb of God, led as a lamb to the slaughter, to the sacrifice. Though many reproached and reviled him yet some pitied him. But the death of Christ was his victory an triumph over his enemies: it was our deliverance, the purchase of eternal life for us. Therefore weep not for him, but let us weep for our own sins, and the sins of our children, which caused his death; an weep for fear of the miseries we shall bring upon ourselves, if we slight his love, and reject his grace. If God delivered him up to suc sufferings as these, because he was made a sacrifice for sin, what wil he do with sinners themselves, who make themselves a dry tree, corrupt and wicked generation, and good for nothing! The bitte sufferings of our Lord Jesus should make us stand in awe of the justic of God. The best saints, compared with Christ, are dry trees; if he suffer, why may not they expect to suffer? And what then shall the damnation of sinners be! Even the sufferings of Christ preach terror to obstinate transgressors.
Greek Textus Receptus
στραφεις 4762 5651 V-2APP-NSM δε 1161 CONJ προς 4314 PREP αυτας 846 P-APF ο 3588 T-NSM ιησους 2424 N-NSM ειπεν 2036 5627 V-2AAI-3S θυγατερες 2364 N-VPF ιερουσαλημ 2419 N-PRI μη 3361 PRT-N κλαιετε 2799 5720 V-PAM-2P επ 1909 PREP εμε 1691 P-1AS πλην 4133 ADV εφ 1909 PREP εαυτας 1438 F-3APF κλαιετε 2799 5720 V-PAM-2P και 2532 CONJ επι 1909 PREP τα 3588 T-APN τεκνα 5043 N-APN υμων 5216 P-2GP
Robertson's NT Word Studies
23:28 {Turning} (strafeis). Luke is fond of this second aorist passive participle of strefw (#7:9,44,55; 10:23). If he had been still carrying the Cross, he could not have made this dramatic gesture. {Weep not} (me klaiete). Present active imperative with me, Stop weeping.
