Luke 23:26-31

The Crucifixion

26 ¹And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus.

27 And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were ²mourning and lamenting for him.

28 But turning to them Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

29 For behold, ³the days are coming when they will say, ⁴‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed! ’

30 ⁵Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us, ’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us. ’

31 For ⁶if they do these things when ⁷the wood is green, what will happen ⁸when it is dry? ”