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Luke 23:27

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

A great number of the people followed him, and among them were women who were beating their breasts and wailing for him.

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I can count all my bones. They stare and gloat over me;

‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.’

Many women were also there, looking on from a distance; they had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him.

There were also women looking on from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome,

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

The women who had come with him from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how his body was laid.

as well as some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,

Everyone was weeping and grieving for her, but he said, “Do not cry, for she is not dead but sleeping.”

Very truly, I tell you, you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice; you will have pain, but your pain will turn into joy.