Luke 23:18-33

¹⁸But they all shouted together, “Kill this man, and release Barabbas to us.”

¹⁹(Barabbas had been put in prison for taking part in a rebellion in the city, and for murder.)

²⁰Pilate wanted to release Jesus, so spoke to them again.

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

²²Pilate asked them for the third time, “But why? What crime has he committed? I don't find any reason for executing him. So I will have him flogged and then release him.”

²³But they continued insisting with loud shouts, demanding that he be crucified. Their shouting succeeded,

²⁴and Pilate gave the sentence they demanded.

²⁵He released the man imprisoned for rebellion and murder, but he sent Jesus to be put to death in accordance with their demands.

²⁶As the soldiers led him away, they seized a man called Simon of Cyrene, who had come in from the countryside. They put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus.

²⁷A large crowd followed him, along with women who were mourning and lamenting him.

²⁸Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don't weep for me. Weep for yourselves and your children.

²⁹For the time is coming when they'll say, ‘Happy are those who are childless, and those who never had babies, and those who never nursed them.’

³⁰They'll say to the mountains, ‘Fall down on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’

³¹For if they do this to wood that is green, what will happen when it's dried out?”

³²They also took two others who were criminals to be executed with him.

³³When they reached the place called the Skull they crucified him together with the criminals, one on his right, and the other on his left.