KJV King James Version
And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
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Luke 23:27
And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
A great number of people followed Him, including women who kept mourning and wailing for Him.
WEB World English Bible
A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.
ASV American Standard Version
And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who bewailed and lamented him.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And there was following him a great multitude of the people, and of women, who also were beating themselves and lamenting him,
Surrounding context — Luke 23
24 And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.
25 And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.
26 And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear [it] after Jesus.
27 And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
28 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed [are] the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
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ἨκολούθειG190 · akoloutheōto followδὲG1161 · dethenαὐτῷG846 · autosit/s/heπολὺG4183 · polusmuchπλῆθοςG4128 · plēthosmultitudeτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoλαοῦG2992 · laosa peopleκαὶG2532 · kaiandγυναικῶνG1135 · gunēwomanαἳG3739 · hos, hēwhichἐκόπτοντοG2875 · koptōto cut/mournκαὶG2532 · kaiandἐθρήνουνG2354 · thrēneōto lamentαὐτόν.G846 · autosit/s/he
Cross-references
Luke 8:52And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.Luke 8:2And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils,Mark 15:40There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;Luke 23:55And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.Matthew 27:55And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:
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