Cyril of Alexandria

Women also are ever prone to tears, and have hearts easily disposed to pity. Signifying that in the time to come women would be bereft of their children. For when war breaks out upon the land of the Jews, all shall perish, both small and great. Hence it follows, For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, &c.

Catena Aurea by Aquinas ↗

Theophylact of Ohrid

That a multitude of people and women followed after Christ signifies that after the cross a great multitude of Jews and many women would believe in Him. Read the book of Acts (Acts 2:41, 4:4), and you will see thousands of believers. And does not the fact that the women who followed Jesus "wept and lamented" serve as a moral lesson for us? The weak soul is a woman; but if through repentance she receives contrition of heart, weeps and laments, then she truly follows Jesus, who is crucified and suffers for our salvation.

Commentary on Luke ↗

Bede

Following him was a large crowd of people, and women who were mourning and lamenting him. But Jesus, turning to them, said: A great crowd likewise followed the Lord's cross, but not with the same mind. For the people indeed, as those who had obtained his death, looked happily upon him dying; but the women, because they desired him to live, wept at him about to die, dying, and dead. …

On the Gospel of Luke ↗

Bonaventure

Second, as to the lamentation of the women accompanying him, it is added: There followed him a great multitude of the people and of women, who bewailed and lamented him. The multitude indeed followed out of wonder, but the women out of compassion; whence the Gloss says: "The wicked follow, so that they might joyfully watch him die; the women, so that they might weep for him whom they desired to live—about to die, dying, and dead." Whence also after death it is said of Magdalene in John 20: "Mary stood at the tomb outside, weeping." …

Commentary on Luke, Chapter 23 ↗