26. As they led Jesus away, Simon, a man from Cyrene, was coming in from the fields. They forced him to carry Jesus’ cross and to walk behind him.
27. A large crowd of people was following Jesus, including some women who were sad and crying for him.
28. But Jesus turned and said to them, “Women of Jerusalem, don’t cry for me. Cry for yourselves and for your children.
29. The time is coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the women who cannot have children and who have no babies to nurse.’