26 ^mAnd as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus. 27 And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for him. 28 But turning to them Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but ⁿweep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ^o‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ 30 Then they will begin to ^psay to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’ 31 For if they do these things when the wood is ^qgreen, what will happen when it is dry?”