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Luke 23:28

World English Bible

But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

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Luke 23:28 in other translations

But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.

Luke 23:28 · American Standard Version

Luke 23:28 in context

  1. 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.
  2. 27A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.
  3. 28But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
  4. 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.’
  5. 30Then they will begin to tell the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and tell the hills, ‘Cover us.’