. Hurlbut's Life of Christ for young and old . ut among these were a few friendsof Jesus, and some of the women who had known himand loved him, and wxre now weeping over the wrongsdone to him. Jesus turned and spoke to these women: Women of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weepfor yourselves and your children! For the time is comingwhen they shall say, Happy are those who have nochildren to suffer and to die. In those days they shallcall out to the mountains, Tall on us, and to the hills,Hide us. If this is what they do now in the beginning,what will they do then in the end? Even in those te
. Hurlbut's Life of Christ for young and old . ut among these were a few friendsof Jesus, and some of the women who had known himand loved him, and wxre now weeping over the wrongsdone to him. Jesus turned and spoke to these women: Women of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weepfor yourselves and your children! For the time is comingwhen they shall say, Happy are those who have nochildren to suffer and to die. In those days they shallcall out to the mountains, Tall on us, and to the hills,Hide us. If this is what they do now in the beginning,what will they do then in the end? Even in those terrible moments Jesus was not think-ing of himself and his own sufferings, but the sorrows thatwould soon come upon others. There is a story toM of Jesus on the way to Calvary,which is not found in any of the gospels, and may not betrue. It is said that a good woman, named Veronica,was standing by the street when Jesus went by. Seeinghis face covered with sweat, and dust, and blood, shewent to him and wiped his face with a napkin. When she 455. r\ : °-^ I n^r, 0 Siloamliawm Old Pool^ ^^-ml^!^ /A ANCtENT %*-» -/llluV V JERUSALEM Scale of One Roman Mile X 3,U0O n \ fSUdta Fe«t\ 456 JesiusJ Xeb to Calbarp looked at her napkin, she found that on it had been printedthe portr t of Jesus; and she kept it ever afterward as hergreatest treasure. They led Jesus out of the gate in the city wall, and upthe side of the hill Calvary, wherever that hill was. Therethey laid the cross upon the ground and stretched Jesusout upon it. They drove nails through his hands andfeet to fasten his body to the cross. Then they lifted itup with Jesus upon it, and dropped the lower end of itinto a hole so that it would stand upright. With Jesus they had brought two other men, whohad been robbers, and sentenced to die by the two men they crucified with Jesus, one on his righthand and the other on his left, and Jesus between them,as if he had been the most wicked man of the three. J
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