27. A large crowd of people followed him; among them were some women who were weeping and wailing for him. 28 Jesus turned to them and said: “Women of Jerusalem! Don’t cry for me, but for yourselves and your children. 29 For the days are coming when people will say, ‘How lucky are the women who never had children, who never bore babies, who never nursed them!” 30 That will be the time when people will say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Hide us!’ 31 For if such things as these are done when the wood is green, what will it be like when it is dry?”

32. They took two other men both of them criminals, to be put to death with Jesus. 33. When they came to the place called “The Skull,” they crucified Jesus there, and the two criminals, one on his right and the other on his left. 34 Jesus said, "Forgive them, Father! They don't know what they are doing."

They divided his clothes among themselves by throwing dice. 35 The people stood there watching while the Jewish leaders jeered at him: “he saved others; let him save himself if he is the Messiah whom God has chosen!”

36. The soldiers also mocked him: they came up to him and offered him cheap wine, 37 and said, “Save yourself if you are the king of the Jews!”

38. Above him were written these words: “This is the King of the Jews.”

39. One of the criminals hanging there threw insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!”

40. The other one, however, rebuked him, saying: “Don’t you fear God? Here we are all under the same sentence. 41 Ours, however, is only right, for we are getting what we deserve for what we did; but he has done no wrong.” 42 And he said to Jesus, “Remember me, Jesus, when you come as King!”

43. Jesus said to him, “I tell you this: today you will be in Paradise with me.”

The Death of Jesus

44. It was about twelve o’clock when the sun stopped shining and darkness covered the whole country until three o’clock; 45 and the curtain hanging in the Temple was torn in two. 46 Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Father! In your hands I place my spirit!” he said this and died.

47. The army officer saw what had happened, and he praised God, saying “Certainly he was a good man!”

SOME MANUSCRIPTS DO NOT HAVE JESUS SAID, “FORGIVE THEM, FATHER! THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING.”