And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
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Gill's Exposition
But Jesus turning unto them,.... These women being behind Christ, at the back of him; and he knowing who they were, and what they were doing, turns himself to them, and addressed them in the following…
Adam Clarke
Bewailed and lamented him - Εκοπτοντο, Beat their breasts. See on Mat 11:17 (note).
We have here the blessed Jesus, the Lamb of God, led as a lamb to the slaughter, to the sacrifice. It is strange with what expedition they went through his trial; how they could do so much work in…
Cambridge Bible
of women Some of them may have come to offer the anodynes which were supposed to be demanded by the Rabbinic interpretation of Pro 31:6. This is the only other recorded incident of the procession to…
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