Luke 23:28
But Jesus turning to them, said: Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not over me; but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
27And there followed him a great multitude of people, and of women, who bewailed and lamented him.
Cross References
Song of Solomon 1:5Do not consider me that I am brown, because the sun hath altered my colour: the sons of my mother have fought against me, they have made me the keeper in the vineyards: my vineyard I have not kept.
Song of Solomon 3:5I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and the harts of the fields, that you stir not up, nor awake my beloved, till she please.
Song of Solomon 5:8I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him that I languish with love.
Song of Solomon 8:4I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake my love till she please.
Matthew Henry on Luke 23:27-32
The Crucifixion. 26 And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus. 27 And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. 28 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. 29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs… Read the whole commentary →