Bible verse
A great number of people followed Him, including women who kept mourning and wailing for Him.
Luke 23:27 · BSB
The verses around it, from Luke 23.
23 But they were insistent, demanding with loud voices for Jesus to be crucified. And their clamor prevailed.
24 So Pilate sentenced that their demand be met.
25 As they had requested, he released the one imprisoned for insurrection and murder, and handed Jesus over to their will.
26 As the soldiers led Him away, they seized Simon of Cyrene on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him to carry behind Jesus.
27 A great number of people followed Him, including women who kept mourning and wailing for Him.
28 But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
29 Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
30 At that time ‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’
31 For if men do these things while the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
KJV
And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
ASV
And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who bewailed and lamented him.
ERV
And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who bewailed and lamented him.
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