Luke 23:27
“And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.”
And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.
And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Cross-References
“I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.”
“And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.”
“Yet hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.”
“And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:”
“And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.”