Luke 23:26-31

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The Crucifixion of Jesus^(A)

²⁶As the soldiers led him away, they seized Simon from Cyrene,^(B) who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus.^(C) ²⁷A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed^(D) for him. ²⁸Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children.^(E) ²⁹For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’^(F) ³⁰Then

“‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!”
and to the hills, “Cover us!”’^[a]^(G)

³¹For if people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”^(H)

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Luke 23:30 Hosea 10:8

Luke 23:44-49

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The Death of Jesus^(A)

⁴⁴It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon,^(B) ⁴⁵for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple^(C) was torn in two.^(D) ⁴⁶Jesus called out with a loud voice,^(E) “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.”^[a]^(F) When he had said this, he breathed his last.^(G)

⁴⁷The centurion, seeing what had happened, praised God^(H) and said, “Surely this was a righteous man.” ⁴⁸When all the people who had gathered to witness this sight saw what took place, they beat their breasts^(I) and went away. ⁴⁹But all those who knew him, including the women who had followed him from Galilee,^(J) stood at a distance,^(K) watching these things.