Luke 23:27

And there followed after him a great multitude of people; and those women also who wailed and lamented over him.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.

In Context

26And as they led him away, they seized Simon the Cyrenian, coming from the fields. and laid upon him the cross, to bear it after Jesus.

28And Jesus turned to them, and said to them: Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me; but weep rather for yourselves, and for your children.

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Cross References

Mark 15:40And there were women looking on, from a distance, Mary Magdalena, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;

Luke 8:52And all were weeping and wailing over her. And Jesus said: Weep not; for she is not dead, but sleepeth

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 →

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