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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.
Note 2 at Lk. 23:29: Jesus was prophesying concerning the days when Jerusalem would be besieged and conquered by Titus, the Roman general (see note 4 at Lk. 19:43, p. 356), and possibly beyond that to the suffering of the Jews.
Note 3 at Lk. 23:29: Jesus is saying that the suffering that was coming on the Jewish nation would be so severe that women would wish that they had never brought children into the world.
