Luke 23:18-33

¹⁸But they all cried out together, saying: “Away with this one! Release to us Barabbas!”—

¹⁹who had been thrown into prison for a certain insurrection in the city, and for murder.

²⁰Then Pilate, wanting to release Jesus, addressed them again.

²¹But they just kept shouting: “Crucify! Crucify him!”

²²For the third time he said to them: “But what evil has this man done? I have found no reason for death in him. I will therefore flog and release him.”

²³But they were insistent, demanding with loud voices that He be crucified! And their voices, especially of the chief priests, prevailed.

²⁴So Pilate decided to grant their demand.

²⁵He released the one who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, the one they asked for; but he delivered Jesus to their will.

²⁶Now as they led Him away, they conscripted a certain Simon of Cyrene (coming in from a field), and put the cross on him to carry it behind Jesus.

²⁷A considerable crowd of people followed Him, including women who were also mourning and lamenting Him.

²⁸So Jesus turned to them and said: “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; rather weep for yourselves and for your children.

²⁹Because indeed, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, even the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’

³⁰Then they will begin ‘to say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!” ’

³¹For if they do these things in the ‘green tree’, what will happen in the ‘dry’?”

³²There were also two others, criminals, led with Him to be put to death.

³³When they arrived at the place called ‘The Skull’, they crucified Him there; also the criminals, one on His right, the other on His left.