For if such things are done ¹  when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?” ² 

biblegateway Luk 23:31

"For if they do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?"

For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?"

For if they do these [things] _when the wood is green_, what will happen _when it is dry_?"

biblegateway Luk 23:31

For if men do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?"

For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?"

bibleoremus Luk 23:31

For if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?"

For if these things are done when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”

biblegateway Luk 23:31

"For if they do these things in the green wood, what will be done in the dry?"

For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?

biblegateway Luk 23:31

For if such things are done ¹  when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?” ² 

¹ tn Grk “if they do such things.” The plural subject here is indefinite, so the active voice has been translated as a passive (see ExSyn 402).

² sn The figure of the green wood and the dry has been variously understood. Most likely the picture compares the judgment on Jesus as the green (living) wood to the worse judgment that will surely come for the dry (dead) wood of the nation.