Luke Chapter 23 verse 27 Holy Bible
And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who bewailed and lamented him.
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And a great band of people went after him, and of women making signs of grief and weeping for him.
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And a great multitude of the people, and of women who wailed and lamented him, followed him.
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And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
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A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.
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And there was following him a great multitude of the people, and of women, who also were beating themselves and lamenting him,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 27. - And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. The great company was made up of the usual concourse of curious lookers-on, of disciples, and others who had heard him in past days, and now came, with much horror, to see the end. The women specially noticed consisted mostly, no doubt, of holy women of his own company, such as the "Maries," together with some of those kindly Jerusalem ladies who were in the habit of soothing the last hours of these condemned ones - unhappily in those sad days so numerous - with narcotics and anodynes. These kindly offices were apparently not forbidden by the Roman authorities. This recital respecting the women is peculiar to St. Luke.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(27) A great company of people, and of women.--Here, again, we come across a characteristic incident peculiar to St. Luke, and obviously derived from the devout women to whom we have traced so many facts which he alone records. (See Introduction.) "Daughters of Jerusalem" were there, as our Lord's words show--perhaps one of the sisterhoods which were formed in that city for mitigating the sufferings of condemned criminals by narcotic drinks (Deutsch. Remains, p. 38)--and among these may have been Mary and Martha, but Luke 23:49 implies the presence of women from Galilee also. The wailing was loud and bitter, for they, we may believe, had cherished, even more fondly than the disciples, the thought that "the kingdom of God should immediately appear" (Luke 19:11).