Thematic Bible: Cross


Thematic Bible



They forced a certain passer-by, who was coming in from the country, to carry His cross -- Simon, a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus.




"Therefore, let all the descendants of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ."

you and all the people of Israel must know that it is by the authority of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead -- yes, I repeat it, it is by His authority that this man stands here before you well.

we are preaching the Christ who was crucified -- a message that is a trap-stick to the Jews and nonsense to the Greeks,





As they were going out of the city, they found a Cyrenian named Simon, and they forced him to carry Jesus' cross.

Now as they led Him away, they seized a man named Simon, from Cyrene, as he was coming in from the country, and put the cross on his shoulders, for him to carry as he walked behind Jesus.







For there are many, of whom I have often told you, and now tell you in tears, who practice living as the enemies of the cross of Christ.




For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the good news -- but not by means of wisdom and rhetoric, so that the cross of Christ may not be emptied of its power. For the message of the cross is nonsense to those who are in the process of being destroyed, but it is the power of God to those who are in the process of being saved.

As for me, myself, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In such a case the hindrance done by the cross has presumably ceased!


and He went out carrying the cross by Himself to a spot called The Place of the Skull, or in Hebrew, Golgotha.



As they were going out of the city, they found a Cyrenian named Simon, and they forced him to carry Jesus' cross.


They forced a certain passer-by, who was coming in from the country, to carry His cross -- Simon, a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus.

As they were going out of the city, they found a Cyrenian named Simon, and they forced him to carry Jesus' cross.

Now as they led Him away, they seized a man named Simon, from Cyrene, as he was coming in from the country, and put the cross on his shoulders, for him to carry as he walked behind Jesus.


and He went out carrying the cross by Himself to a spot called The Place of the Skull, or in Hebrew, Golgotha.