Luke 23:29

New International Reader's Version

The time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the women who can’t have children! Blessed are those who never gave birth or nursed babies!’

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:3

But someone who hasn’t been born yet is better off than the dead or the living. That’s because that person hasn’t seen the evil things that are done on earth.

Hosea 13:16

The people of Samaria must pay for their sins. They have refused to obey me. They will be killed by swords. Their little children will be smashed on the ground. Their pregnant women will be ripped wide open.”

Matthew 24:19

How awful it will be in those days for pregnant women! How awful for nursing mothers!

Luke 11:27

As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out. She shouted, “Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you.”

Luke 23:28

Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me. Weep for yourselves and for your children.