Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
They compel
A cyrenian
And rufus
To bear
Bible References
They compel
Matthew 27:32
And, coming out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they impressed to bear the cross.
Luke 23:26
And, when they led Him away, laying hold of one Simon a Cyrenian, coming from the country, they laid on him the cross, to bear it after Jesus.
A cyrenian
Acts 2:10
Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Lybia about Cyrene, and sojourners from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,
Acts 6:9
But there arose some of those who were of the synagogue called the synagogue of the Freedmen, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen.
Acts 11:20
And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene; who, indeed, having come to Antioch, were speaking to the Greeks also, publishing the glad tidings of the Lord Jesus.
Acts 13:1
Now there were in Antioch, in the assembly which was there, prophets and teachers; both Barnabas and Symeon who is called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenean, and Manaen, the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
And rufus
Romans 16:13
Salute Rufus, the elect in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
To bear
Luke 14:27
And whosoever does not bear his own cross, and come after Me, cannot be My disciple.
John 15:18
If the world hates you, ye know that it has hated Me before it hated you.