Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

General references

Bible References

As

Acts 7:58
and cast him out of the city and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man, whose name was Saul.
Hebrews 13:11
As the bodies of those animals, whose blood being offered for sin is brought into the holy place by the high-priest, are not eaten, but are burnt without the camp.

They found

Matthew 16:24
Then said Jesus to his disciples, If any one is willing to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me:
Mark 15:21
And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus, as he was passing by, coming out of the country, to carry his cross:
Luke 23:26
And when they led Him away, they laid hold on one Simon a Cyrenean coming out of the country, and put the cross on him to bear it behind Jesus.

Cyrene

Acts 2:10
Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers from Rome, Jews and proselytes,
Acts 6:9
But there rose up some of the synagogue, which is called that of the libertines, and some of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia, and Asia, to dispute with Stephen:
Acts 11:20
But some of them were Cyprians, and Cyrenians, who when they came to Antioch, discoursed with the Grecians also, preaching the Lord Jesus.
Acts 13:1
Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers, as Barnabas, and Simeon called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenean, and Manaen who had been educated with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul;

General references

Matthew 10:38
and he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
Hebrews 13:13
Let us then go out unto Him without the camp, bearing his reproach: for we have here no continuing city,