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Jesus turned to them and said, "Women of Jerusalem! Don't cry for me, but for yourselves and your children.
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For the days are coming when people will say, "How lucky are the women who never had children, who never bore babies, who never nursed them!'
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That will be the time when people will say to the mountains, "Fall on us!' and to the hills, "Hide us!'
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For if such things as these are done when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?"
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Two other men, both of them criminals, were also led out to be put to death with Jesus.
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When they came to the place called "The Skull," they crucified Jesus there, and the two criminals, one on his right and the other on his left.
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Jesus said, "Forgive them, Father! They don't know what they are doing."
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The people stood there watching while the Jewish leaders made fun of him: "He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Messiah whom God has chosen!"
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The soldiers also made fun of him: they came up to him and offered him cheap wine,
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and said, "Save yourself if you are the king of the Jews!"
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Above him were written these words: "This is the King of the Jews.