29. For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’
30. Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’
31. For if such things are done when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
32. Two other criminals were also led away to be executed with him.
33. So when they came to the place that is called “The Skull,” they crucified him there, along with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.
34. [But Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.”] Then they threw dice to divide his clothes.
35. The people also stood there watching, but the rulers ridiculed him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”
36. The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine,
37. and saying, “If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!”
38. There was also an inscription over him, “This is the king of the Jews.”
39. One of the criminals who was hanging there railed at him, saying, “Aren’t you the Christ? Save yourself and us!”
40. But the other rebuked him, saying, “Don’t you fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?