¹⁷ Carrying the cross by himself, he went to the place called Place of the Skull (in Hebrew, Golgotha).

³³ When they came to a place called The Skull,^[a] they nailed him to the cross. And the criminals were also crucified—one on his right and one on his left.

²⁷ And if you do not carry your own cross and follow me, you cannot be my disciple.

The Crucifixion

²⁶ As they led Jesus away, a man named Simon, who was from Cyrene,^[a] happened to be coming in from the countryside. The soldiers seized him and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus.

¹¹ Under the old system, the high priest brought the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, and the bodies of the animals were burned outside the camp. ¹² So also Jesus suffered and died outside the city gates to make his people holy by means of his own blood. ¹³ So let us go out to him, outside the camp, and bear the disgrace he bore.

⁵⁸ and dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. His accusers took off their coats and laid them at the feet of a young man named Saul.^[a]

³² Let this Messiah, this King of Israel, come down from the cross so we can see it and believe him!” Even the men who were crucified with Jesus ridiculed him.

³⁸ A sign was fastened above him with these words: “This is the King of the Jews.”

²³ Then he said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross daily, and follow me.

²⁶ A sign announced the charge against him. It read, “The King of the Jews.”