It happened on one of these days that he embarked in a boat alone with his disciples and said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake." So they set sail.

He said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross day after day, and so follow me;

After he had gone away, the scribes and Pharisees commenced to follow him up closely and cross-question him on many points,

Now if God so clothes grass which blooms to-day in the field and is thrown to-morrow into the furnace, will he not much more clothe you? O men, how little you trust him!

whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

Besides all that, a great gulf yawns between us and you, to keep back those who want to cross from us to you and also those who want to pass from you to us.'

but they roared, "To the cross, to the cross with him!"

As they led him off they caught hold of Simon a Cyrenian on his way from the country and laid the cross on him to carry after Jesus.