εἶπεν. The only recorded words between His condemnation and crucifixion. Pity wrung from Him the utterance which anguish and violence had failed to extort.

θυγατέρες Ἰερουσαλήμ. The wailing women were not therefore His former Galilaean followers, Luke 8:2-3.

ἐφ' ἑαυτάς. Some of them at least would survive till the terrible days of the Siege.

ἐπὶ τὰ τέκνα ὑμῶν. Comp. Matthew 27:25, “His blood be on us and on our children.”

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