mnt - Luke:23:26-43

mnt@Luke:23:26 @ And when they led him away they took hold of Simon, a Cyrenean, who was coming in from the country, and laid the cross on him to carry it behind Jesus.

mnt@Luke:23:27 @ He was also followed by a great crowd of people, and of women too, who were beating their breast and lamenting him.

mnt@Luke:23:28 @ But Jesus turned to and said. "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me;

mnt@Luke:23:29 @ "but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have never bore children, and the breasts that never suckled.

mnt@Luke:23:30 @ "Then they will begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us! and to the hills, Cover us!

mnt@Luke:23:31 @ "For if this is what they do in the green tree, what will they do in the dry?"

mnt@Luke:23:32 @ And there were led out with him to be executed, two criminals also.

mnt@Luke:23:33 @ When they came to the place called "The Skull," there they crucified him and the criminals also, one upon his right hand, and one upon his left.

mnt@Luke:23:34 @ Jesus kept saying, "Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." And they divided his garments among them, casting lots for them,

mnt@Luke:23:35 @ and the people stood looking on. Even the rulers repeatedly taunted him, saying, "He saved others, let him save himself, if this fellow is indeed the Christ of God, His Chosen One!"

mnt@Luke:23:36 @ Even the soldiers made sport of him by coming up and offering him sour wine,

mnt@Luke:23:37 @ saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself."

mnt@Luke:23:38 @ For there was an inscription over his head, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

mnt@Luke:23:39 @ And one of the criminals who had been hung there kept reviling him, saying. "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us."

mnt@Luke:23:40 @ But the other, answering, reproved him, saying. "Have you no fear of God even? When you are suffering the same punishment as he?

mnt@Luke:23:41 @ "We indeed justly, for we are receiving due retribution for what we have done. But he has done no wrong."

mnt@Luke:23:42 @ Then he added, "Jesus, remember me when you come in your kingdom."

mnt@Luke:23:43 @ "In solemn truth I tell you," said Jesus, "that this day you shall be with me in Paradise."