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27 A large crowd of people followed him, including some women who kept mourning and wailing for him.

28 But Jesus turned to them and said, “Women[a] of Jerusalem, stop crying for me. Instead, cry for yourselves and for your children, 29 because the time is surely coming when people[b] will say, ‘How blessed are the women who couldn’t bear children and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 23:28 Lit. Daughters
  2. Luke 23:29 Lit. they