Bearing Cross to Golgotha

Scripture

• Matthew 27:32

  And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.

• Matthew 27:33

  And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,

• Matthew 27:34

  They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.

• Mark 15:21

  And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.

• Mark 15:22

  And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.

• Mark 15:23

  And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not.

• Luke 23:26

  And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.

• Luke 23:27

  And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.

• Luke 23:28

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

• Luke 23:29

  For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.

• Luke 23:30

  Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.

• Luke 23:31

  For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?

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