²⁷ A great number of the people followed him, and among them were women who were beating their breasts and wailing for him.^{(A) 28} But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.^{(B) 29} For the days are surely coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’ ³⁰ Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’^{(C) 31} For if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”^(D)

³² Two others also, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him.^(E)