Luke 23:28-41

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.

³⁴Jesus said, “Father, please forgive them, for they don't know what they're doing.” They divided up his clothes by throwing dice for them.

³⁵The people stood and watched and the leaders sneered at Jesus. “He saved others, let him save himself, if he is really God's Messiah, the Chosen One,” they said.

³⁶The soldiers also mocked him, coming up to him and offering him wine vinegar, saying,

³⁷“If you're the King of the Jews, then save yourself.”

³⁸Above Jesus was a sign on which it was written, “This is the King of the Jews.”

³⁹One of the criminals hanging there joined in the insults against Jesus. “Aren't you the Messiah?” he asked. “Then save yourself—and us too!”

⁴⁰But the other criminal disagreed and argued with him, “Don't you fear God even when you're suffering the same punishment?” he asked.

⁴¹“For us the sentence is right since we're being punished for what we did, but this man didn't do anything wrong.”