The Crucifixion of Jesus26As the soldiers led him away, they seized Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus. 27A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed for him. 28Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children.29For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’