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As the Roman soldiers led Yeshua away, they grabbed hold of a man from Cyrene named Shim`on, who was on his way in from the country. They put the execution-stake on his back and made him carry it behind Yeshua.
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Large numbers of people followed, including women crying and wailing over him.
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Yeshua turned to them and said, "Daughters of Yerushalayim, don't cry for me; cry for yourselves and your children!
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For the time is coming when people will say, `The childless women are the lucky ones -- those whose wombs have never borne a child, whose breasts have never nursed a baby!
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Then They will begin to say to the mountains, `Fall on us!' and to the hills, `Cover us!'
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For if they do these things when the wood is green, what is going to happen when it's dry?"
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Two other men, both criminals, were led out to be executed with him.
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When they came to the place called The Skull, they nailed him to a stake; and they nailed the criminals to stakes, one on the right and one on the left.
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Yeshua said, "Father, forgive them; they don't understand what they are doing." They divided up his clothes by throwing dice.
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The people stood watching, and the rulers sneered at him.m "He saved others," they said, "so if he really is the Messiah, the one chosen by God, let him save himself!"
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The soldiers too ridiculed him; they came up, offered him vinegar