Luke 23:18-33

¹⁸But they cried out all together, saying, “Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas!”

¹⁹Barabbas was a man who had been put into prison for a certain rebellion in the city and for murder.

²⁰Pilate addressed them again, desiring to release Jesus.

²¹But they shouted, saying, “Crucify him, crucify him.”

²²He said to them a third time, “Why, what evil has this man done? I have found nothing deserving the death penalty in him. Therefore after punishing him, I will release him.”

²³But they were insistent with loud voices, demanding for him to be crucified. Their voices convinced Pilate.

²⁴So Pilate decided to grant their demand.

²⁵He released the one they asked for who had been put in prison for rioting and murder. But he delivered up Jesus to their will.

²⁶As they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and they laid the cross on him to carry, following Jesus.

²⁷A great crowd of the people, and of women who grieved and mourned for him, were following him.

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

²⁹For see, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren and the wombs that did not bear, and the breasts that did not nurse.'

³⁰Then they will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us,' and to the hills, 'Cover us.'

³¹For if they do these things while the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”

³²Other men, two criminals, were led away with him to be put to death.

³³When they came to the place that is called “The Skull,” there they crucified him, and the criminals—one on his right and one on his left.