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Luke 23:27

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A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.

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Luke 23:27 in other translations

And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who bewailed and lamented him.

Luke 23:27 · American Standard Version

Luke 23:27 in context

  1. 25He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.
  2. 26When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it after Jesus.
  3. 27A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.
  4. 28But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
  5. 29For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’