Jesus is Crucified^(A)

²⁶ As they led Jesus^[a] away, they grabbed Simon, a man from Cyrene, as he was coming in from the country, and they put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus. ²⁷ A large crowd of people followed him, including some women who kept mourning and wailing for him.

²⁸ But Jesus turned to them and said, “Women^[b] of Jerusalem, stop crying for me. Instead, cry for yourselves and for your children, ²⁹ because the time is surely coming when people^[c] will say, ‘How blessed are the women who couldn’t bear children and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ ³⁰ Then people^[d] will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’, and to the hills, ‘Cover us up!’^{[e] 31} And if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”