They took Jesus therefore:  and he went out, bearing the cross for himself.

And as they came out, they laid hold upon one Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, who was passing by, coming from the country; him they compelled to go with them, and laid on him the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.

And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who bewailed and lamented him.

But Jesus turning unto them said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.  For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, ’Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.’  Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us;’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’  For if they do these things in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry?”

And there were also two others, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.

THE CRUCIFIXION.

And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, The place of a skull, they gave him wine to drink mingled with gall:  and when he had tasted it, he would not drink.

There they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand and the other on the left.

And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”

And Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross.  And there was written: 

    Jesus of Nazareth, the king of the Jews.

This title therefore read many of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city; and it was written in Hebrew, and in Latin, and in Greek.

The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, “Write not, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that he said, ‘I am King of the Jews.’”

Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”

The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat:  now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.  They said therefore one to another, “Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be”:  that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith,

    “They parted my garments among them,
    And upon my vesture did they cast lots.”

These things therefore the soldiers did; and they sat and watched him there.

And the people stood beholding.

And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself:  if thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross.”

In like manner also, the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said, “He saved others; himself he cannot save.  Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe.  He trusteth on God; let him deliver him now, if he desireth him:  for he said, I am the Son of God.”