Thought I'd stop extra long at station eight, where the poor ladies of Jerusalem express their sympathies for the Lord as he drags the cross past them. In the midst of the pain, he stops to sing his old song again, the first message that he gave us - Repent, weep for yourselves, because of what is to come if you do not repent. For, he adds, if the priests and the people behave so brutally now, in relatively good times, while the trees are still green, how on earth will they behave when bad times come, when the City will be laid to ruin.
And certainly, some forty years later, Jerusalem is besieged by the Romans and the people are brutally mastered by the greatest army of ancient times.
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