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Luke 23:27

Tree of Life Version

Now a great multitude of people was following Him, including women who were mourning and singing dirges for Him.

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For dogs have surrounded me. A band of evildoers has closed in on me. They pierced my hands and my feet.

‘We played the flute for you, but you did not dance. We wailed, but you did not mourn.’

Many women were there, watching from a distance. They had followed Yeshua from the Galilee, serving Him.

There were also women watching from a distance. Among them were Miriam from Magdala, Miriam the mother of Jacob the younger and of Joses, and Salome.

But Yeshua, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but for yourselves and your children.

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

And certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities — Miriam, the one called Magdalene, out of whom seven demons had gone;

And everyone was weeping and lamenting her; but He said, “Don’t weep, for she didn’t die but is sleeping.”

Amen, amen I tell you, you will weep and mourn, but the world will celebrate. You will be filled with sorrow, but your sorrow will turn to joy!