Section 133, A & B The Crucifixion

Section 133 
THE CRUCIFIXION
Subdivision A.
ON THE WAY TO THE CROSS
(Within and without Jerusalem. Friday morning.)
MATT. 27:31-34
MARK 15:20-23
LUKE 23:26-33
JOHN 19:17

"And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who bewailed and lamented him." 

"Only the women bewailed him. They were not Galilæans, but women of Jerusalem."-FF

But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. 

"Some of these women, and the children of others, would survive till the terrible siege of Jerusalem and suffer in it. Jesus bore his own suffering in silence, but his pity for those upon whom these days of anguish would come caused him to speak."-FF

"And when they came unto the place which is called The skull, they gave {offered} him wine a to drink mingled with gall: {myrrh:} but when he had tasted it, he would not drink. (he received it not).

"This mixture of sour wine mingled with gall and myrrh was intended to dull the sense of pain of those being crucified or otherwise severely punished. The custom is said to have originated with the Jews and not with the Romans. Jesus declined it because it was the Father's will that he should suffer. He would not go upon the cross in a drugged, semiconscious condition."Fourfold

THE CRUCIFIXION
Subdivision B.
JESUS CRUCIFIED AND REVILED. HIS THREE SAYINGS DURING FIRST THREE HOURS. (Friday morning from 9 o'clock till noon.)
MATT. 27:35-44
MARK 15:24-32
LUKE 23:33-43
JOHN 19:18-27

"Simon of Cyrene, a city in North Africa populated with many Jews, was forced… to carry the cross (actually the crossbeam) when Jesus could no longer carry it Himself, being weak from the beatings." -BKC

This makes much more sense to me---the vertical piece of the cross would have to be secured in the ground.

"And Jesus said, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do."

"Our Lord's prayer here reminds us of the word at Isa. 53:12. It accords with his own teachings (Matt. 5:44), and it was echoed by Stephen (Acts 7:59, 60). Peter and Paul both speak of the Jewish ignorance (Acts 3:17; I. Cor. 2:8). Ignorance mitigates, but does not excuse, crime."-Fourfold

"The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews. Pilate answered, What I have written I have written."

"The rulers smarted under this title which Pilate had tauntingly written. They had insisted that Jesus' kingship was dangerous enough to justify his crucifixion; but now (if politically and temporally interpreted) they admit that his kingship was an idle claim, a mere matter of words." -Fourfold

Ironic--taken with Judas's regret and the leaders indifference, they point to the futility and folly that results from following the opinions of men:

"They promised to believe if he will come down from the cross, yet his being lifted upon the cross was the very act which would convince them--John 8:28." -Fourfold

"The word paradise is not Greek, but is of Asiatic origin. In Arabic and Persian it signifies a garden, a vineyard, and also the place of the blessed. In the Kushuf ul Loghat, a very celebrated Persian dictionary, the Jenet al Ferdoos, Garden of Paradise, is said to have been “created by God out of light, and that the prophets and wise men ascend thither.”-Adam Clarke