The Crucifixion

21 A passerby named Simon, who was from Cyrene,[a] was coming in from the countryside just then, and the soldiers forced him to carry Jesus’ cross. (Simon was the father of Alexander and Rufus.)

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Footnotes

  1. 15:21 Cyrene was a city in northern Africa.

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.

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  1. 23:26 Cyrene was a city in northern Africa.

The Crucifixion

32 Along the way, they came across a man named Simon, who was from Cyrene,[a] and the soldiers forced him to carry Jesus’ cross.

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  1. 27:32 Cyrene was a city in northern Africa.

13 Greet Rufus, whom the Lord picked out to be his very own; and also his dear mother, who has been a mother to me.

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Barnabas and Saul Are Commissioned

13 Among the prophets and teachers of the church at Antioch of Syria were Barnabas, Simeon (called “the black man”[a]), Lucius (from Cyrene), Manaen (the childhood companion of King Herod Antipas[b]), and Saul.

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  1. 13:1a Greek who was called Niger.
  2. 13:1b Greek Herod the tetrarch.

20 However, some of the believers who went to Antioch from Cyprus and Cyrene began preaching to the Gentiles[a] about the Lord Jesus.

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  1. 11:20 Greek the Hellenists (i.e., those who speak Greek); other manuscripts read the Greeks.

But one day some men from the Synagogue of Freed Slaves, as it was called, started to debate with him. They were Jews from Cyrene, Alexandria, Cilicia, and the province of Asia.

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10 Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, and the areas of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome

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

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The World’s Hatred

18 “If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. 19 The world would love you as one of its own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the world. I chose you to come out of the world, so it hates you. 20 Do you remember what I told you? ‘A slave is not greater than the master.’ Since they persecuted me, naturally they will persecute you. And if they had listened to me, they would listen to you.

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