Jesus turned towards them and said: 'Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not over me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

For behold the days shall come wherein they will say: Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have not borne, and the papas that have not given suck.
Then shall they begin to say to the mountains: Fall upon us, and to the hills: Cover us.

For if in the green wood they do these things, what shall be done in the dry ?' He then addressed a few words of consolation to hem, which I do not exactly remember.
The procession made a momentary halt.

The executioners, who set of first, had reached Calvary with the instruments for the execution, and were followed by a hundred of the Roman soldiers who had started with Pilate; he only accompanied the procession as far as the gateway, and returned to the town..