Luke 23:20-31

20Pilate addressed them once again because he wanted to release Jesus.

21But they kept on shouting, “Crucify, crucify him!”

22A third time he said to them, “Why? What wrong has he done? I have found him guilty of no crime deserving death. I will therefore flog him and release him.”

23But they were insistent, demanding with loud shouts that he be crucified. And their shouts prevailed.

24So Pilate decided that their demand should be granted.

25He released the man they asked for, who had been thrown in prison for insurrection and murder. But he handed Jesus over to their will.

26As they led him away, they seized Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country. They placed the cross on his back and made him carry it behind Jesus.

27A great number of the people followed him, among them women who were mourning and wailing for him.

28But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

29For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’

30Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’

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