The Crucifixion

26 As they led Jesus away, Simon of Cyrene,[2][Cyrene was a city in northern Africa.] who was coming in from the country just then, was forced to follow Jesus and carry his cross.
27 Great crowds trailed along behind, including many grief-stricken women.
28 But Jesus turned and said to them, "Daughters of Jerusalem, don't weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
29 For the days are coming when they will say, `Fortunate indeed are the women who are childless, the wombs that have not borne a child and the breasts that have never nursed.'
30 People will beg the mountains to fall on them and the hills to bury them.
31 For if these things are done when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?[3][Or If these things are done to me, the living tree, what will happen to you, the dry tree? ]"
        32 Two others, both criminals, were led out to be executed with him.
33 Finally, they came to a place called The Skull.[4][Sometimes rendered Calvary, which comes from the Latin word for "skull."] All three were crucified there—Jesus on the center cross, and the two criminals on either side.
        34 Jesus said, "Father, forgive these people, because they don't know what they are doing."[5][ This sentence is not included in many ancient manuscripts.] And the soldiers gambled for his clothes by throwing dice.[6][Greek by casting lots. See Ps 22:18.]
        35 The crowd watched, and the leaders laughed and scoffed. "He saved others," they said, "let him save himself if he is really God's Chosen One, the Messiah."
36 The soldiers mocked him, too, by offering him a drink of sour wine.
37 They called out to him, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!"
38 A signboard was nailed to the cross above him with these words: "This is the King of the Jews."