It happened one day that he got into a boat with his disciples, and said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake."

They made a landing in the neighborhood of Gerasa, which is just across the lake from Galilee.

Then all the people of the neighborhood of Gerasa asked him to go away from them, for they were terribly frightened. And he got into a boat and went back.

And he said to everyone, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross day after day and follow me.

But if God so dresses the wild grass, which is alive today, and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, how much more surely will he clothe you, who have so little faith?

For no one who does not take up his own cross and come after me can be a disciple of mine.

Besides there is a great chasm set between you and us, so that those who want to go over from this side to you cannot, and they cannot cross from your side to us.'

As they led Jesus away, they seized a man named Simon, from Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and put the cross on his back, for him to carry behind Jesus.

Then he took it down from the cross and wrapped it in linen and laid it in a tomb hewn in the rock, where no one had yet been laid.