for a time is coming when they will say, 'Happy are the childless women, and those who have never borne or nursed children!'

saying, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!"

One of the criminals who were hanging there, abused him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us too!"

But the other reproved him and said, "Have you no fear even of God when you are suffering the same penalty?

And we are suffering it justly, for we are only getting our deserts, but this man has done nothing wrong."

And he said to them, "What is all this that you are discussing with each other on your way?" They stopped sadly,

and one of them named Cleopas said to him, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know what has happened there lately?"

Then he said to them, "How foolish you are and how slow to believe all that the prophets have said!

But he said to them, "Why are you so disturbed, and why do doubts arise in your minds?

You are to be witnesses to all this, beginning at Jerusalem.

And I will send down upon you what my Father has promised. Wait here in the city until you are clothed with power from on high."