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Luke 23:27-35 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

27. A large crowd of people followed him; among them were some women who were weeping and wailing for him.

28. Jesus turned to them and said, “Women of Jerusalem! Don't cry for me, but for yourselves and your children.

29. For the days are coming when people will say, ‘How lucky are the women who never had children, who never bore babies, who never nursed them!’

30. That will be the time when people will say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Hide us!’

31. For if such things as these are done when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”

32. Two other men, both of them criminals, were also led out to be put to death with Jesus.

33. When they came to the place called “The Skull”, they crucified Jesus there, and the two criminals, one on his right and the other on his left.

34. Jesus said, “Forgive them, Father! They don't know what they are doing.”They divided his clothes among themselves by throwing dice.

35. The people stood there watching while the Jewish leaders jeered at him: “He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Messiah whom God has chosen!”

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