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Gospel Reading - Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem

²⁷Great crowds trailed along behind, and many grief-stricken women.

²⁸But Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but for yourselves and for your children. ²⁹For the days are coming when the women who have no children will be counted fortunate indeed. ³⁰Mankind will beg the mountains to fall on them and crush them, and the hills to bury them. ³¹For if such things as this are done to me, the Living Tree, what will they do to you?”^a

1. Literally, “For if they do this when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”

Gospel Reading - Jesus is Crucified

^32-33Two others, criminals, were led out to be executed with him at a place called “The Skull.” There all three were crucified — Jesus on the center cross, and the two criminals on either side.

³⁴“Father, forgive these people,” Jesus said, “for they don’t know what they are doing.”

And the soldiers gambled for his clothing, throwing dice for each piece.