The Road to the Cross

Luke 23:26-32

And as they led him away, having taken hold on Simon, a certain Cyrenian, coming from the field, they put on him the cross, to bear it behind Jesus.

And there was following him a great multitude of the people, and of women, who also were beating themselves and lamenting him,

and Jesus having turned unto them, said, `Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves weep ye, and for your children;

for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;

then they shall begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us, and to the hills, Cover us; --

for, if in the green tree they do these things--in the dry what may happen?'

And there were also others--two evil-doers--with him, to be put to death;