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.
- ESV And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting 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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Quick answer
A great crowd followed, including women mourning and lamenting Jesus. Their grief frames the final journey to the cross.
Overview
Luke records the multitude accompanying Jesus, with women openly weeping for Him. Their lament shows that not all in Jerusalem rejected Him, and it sets up His solemn words about the coming judgment. The scene reminds us that the suffering of Christ stirred genuine sorrow, even as it accomplished eternal good.
Cross-references & the web
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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Luke shows Jesus the Savior for all — outsiders, the poor, the nations — the one who, on the Emmaus road, opened all the Scriptures to show they were about himself.
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