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The Life Of Jesus Christ In Its Historical Connexion by Augustus Neander

Section 289. Jesus led to Calvary.--Simon of Cyrene.--The Words of Christ to the Weeping Women.

As was usual with condemned criminals, Jesus himself carried the instrument of death to the place of execution. But his severe struggles and sufferings, both of body and mind, had so exhausted his strength that he sunk under the burden. Even the rude soldiers, who had so lately mocked him, were filled with compassion, and compelled a Jew, whom they met on the way, Simon of Cyrene, to take his cross and bear it to the place of death.

Amid all his sufferings he was moved with compassion for the blinded people, over whose heads he saw impending the judgments of God, called down by their long-accumulated guilt, of which he had so often warned them. Seeing the women of Jerusalem in tears, he said to them, |Weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.| Then, after predicting the woes of the siege and destruction of Jerusalem, he said, |If they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?|

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