Luke 23:26-31

Christian Standard Bible

The Way to the Cross

²⁶ As^(A) they led him away, they seized Simon, a Cyrenian,^(B) who was coming in from the country, and laid the cross^(C) on him to carry behind Jesus. ²⁷ A large crowd of people followed him, including women who were mourning and lamenting him.^{(D) 28} But turning to them, Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem,^(E) do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and your children. ²⁹ Look, the days are coming^(F) when they will say, ‘Blessed are the women without children, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed!’^{(G) 30} Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’ ^{[a](H) 31} For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”^(I)