Luke 23:26-33 ▼

26 As they led Jesus away, they grabbed Simon, a man from Cyrene, as he was coming in from the country, and they put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus.

27 A large crowd of people followed him, including some women who kept mourning and wailing for him.

28 But Jesus turned to them and said, |Women of Jerusalem, stop crying for me. Instead, cry for yourselves and for your children,

29 because the time is surely coming when people will say, 'How blessed are the women who couldn't bear children and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!'

30 Then people will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!', and to the hills, 'Cover us up!'

31 And if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?|

32 Two others, who were criminals, were also led away to be executed with Jesus.

33 When they reached the place called The Skull, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.