5 Bible Verses about Carrying The Cross

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself and take his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to preserve his own life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me will find it. For what good will it do a man if he gains the whole world but parts with his life? What can a man give to buy back his life?

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

As they went out of the city they came upon a Cyrenian named Simon, and they forced him to carry Jesus' cross.

And they forced a passer-by, who was coming in from the country, to carry his cross??ne Simon, a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus.

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.