For he had healed many, so that all those who {were suffering from diseases} pressed about him in order that they could touch him.

Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.

And he went with him, and a large crowd followed him and pressed on him.

So the crowd pressed up and started to ask him for his usual boon.

They *pressed into service a passer-by coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene (the father of Alexander and Rufus), to bear His cross.