Lucas 23:29

29 Miren, va a llegar el tiempo en que se dirá: “¡Dichosas las estériles, que nunca dieron a luz ni amamantaron!”

Lucas 23:29 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 23:29

For behold the days are coming
The time is hastening on; yet a little while, a few years more, and such times of distress will be:

in the which they shall say;
or it shall be commonly said; it will be in every one's mouth:

blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps
that never gave suck;
that is, happy wilt those persons be who have no children, to be starved to death, for want of bread; or to be killed with the sword before their eyes, which must greatly enhance their own miseries. Dr. Hammond thinks, that one passage particularly is referred to, related by Josephus; that when Titus had so closely encompassed the city with a wall, that there was no coming out for provisions, upon which a sore famine commenced, so that they fed on dung and dirt, and shoes, and girdles, one rich and noble woman, whose name was Mary, the daughter of Eleazar, being stripped of all she had, by the seditious, killed her own child, and dressed it, and ate part of it; and the other part being found by the soldiers that broke in upon her, the news of this shocking fact was spread all over the city, and every one looked with horror upon it, and with the same compassion, as if they had done it themselves: and then might those words be said, "blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare" who, though starving themselves, were under no temptation to do such a detestable action.

Lucas 23:29 In-Context

27 Lo seguía mucha gente del pueblo, incluso mujeres que se golpeaban el pecho, lamentándose por él.
28 Jesús se volvió hacia ellas y les dijo:—Hijas de Jerusalén, no lloren por mí; lloren más bien por ustedes y por sus hijos.
29 Miren, va a llegar el tiempo en que se dirá: “¡Dichosas las estériles, que nunca dieron a luz ni amamantaron!”
30 Entonces»“dirán a las montañas: ‘¡Caigan sobre nosotros!’,y a las colinas: ‘¡Cúbrannos!’”
31 Porque si esto se hace cuando el árbol está verde, ¿qué no sucederá cuando esté seco?
La Santa Biblia, Nueva Versión Internacional® NVI® Copyright © 1999 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.