And he went outside and wept bitterly.

Now they were all wailing and mourning for her, but he said, “Stop your weeping; she is not dead but asleep.”

But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

“Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

Now when Jesus approached and saw the city, he wept over it,

“Woe to you who are well satisfied with food now, for you will be hungry. “Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

When the Lord saw her, he had compassion for her and said to her, “Do not weep.”

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.’

As she stood behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the perfumed oil.