Luke 23:27. A great number of the people. The ordinary crowd at an execution.

And of women. Such a crowd would be largely made up of women. These were not the Galilean women (Luke 23:49), but women of Jerusalem (Luke 23:28).

Bewailed and lamented him. This does not of itself indicate any real attachment to Him. It was the natural sympathy usual to the sex at such a time. Some among them may have wept from deeper motives, especially since our Lord spoke to them as He did. The later Jewish tradition that expressions of sympathy for a malefactor on the way to execution were unlawful, is not well enough sustained to prove that the conduct of the women was unexampled.

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Old Testament