A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.
Parallel translations
- KJV And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
- BSB A great number of people followed Him, including women who kept mourning and wailing for Him.
- NKJV And a great multitude of the people followed Him, and women who also mourned and lamented Him.
- NASB Now following Him was a large crowd of the people, and of women who were mourning and grieving for Him.
- NLT A large crowd trailed behind, including many grief-stricken women.
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Cross-references · 5
- Luke 8:52All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, “Don’t weep. She isn’t dead, but sleeping.”
- Luke 8:2and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;
- Mark 15:40There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;
- Luke 23:55The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid.
- Matt 27:55Many women were there watching from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him.
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