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And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.
They found
Cyrene
General references
Bible References
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Leviticus 4:3
If the priest being anointed shall sin according to the guilt of the people; and he brought for his sin which he sinned, a bullock, the son of a cow, blameless to Jehovah for the sin.
Numbers 15:35
And Jehovah will say to Moses, Dying, the man shall die: all the assembly stoned him with stones without the camp.
1 Kings 21:10
And set two men, sons of Belial, over against him, and they shall bear witness, saying, Thou didst praise God and the king. And they shall bring him forth and stone him, and he shall die.
Acts 7:58
And having cast out of the city, they stoned: and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul.
Hebrews 13:11
for of whom the blood of the living ones is brought for sin into the holies by the chief priest, the bodies of these are burned without the camp.
They found
Matthew 16:24
Then said Jesus to his disciples, If any wish to come after me, let him deny himself absolutely, and lift up his cross, and follow me.
Mark 15:21
And they constrain a certain Simon, a Cyrenian, passing by, coming from the field, the father of Alexander and Rufus, that he might take up his cross.
Luke 23:26
And as they led him away, seizing upon Simon, a certain Cyrenian, coming from the field, they laid the cross upon him, to carry after Jesus.
Cyrene
Acts 2:10
And Phrygia, and Pamphylia, Egypt, and parts of Lybia that near Cyrene, and Romans arriving as strangers, and Jews, and strangers,
Acts 6:9
And certain of them arose from the synagogue, called Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrian, and of them from Cilicia and Asia, seeking out with Stephen.
Acts 11:20
And certain of them were Cyprian and Cyrenian men, who having come to Antioch, spake to the Greeks announcing good news, the Lord Jesus.
Acts 13:1
And certain prophets and teachers were in the church being in Antioch; as Barnabas, and Simeon called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
General references
Matthew 10:38
And whoever takes not his cross, and follows after me, is not worthy of me.
Hebrews 13:13
Therefore we should come to him without the camp, bearing his reproach.