and anyone who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.

Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.

Along the way they found a man from Cyrene, named Simon, [and] they forced him to carry the cross of [Jesus].

and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild [it] in three days, save Yourself! If You are [the] Son of God, come down from the cross!

“He saved others, [but] He cannot save Himself. He is [the] King of Israel! Let Him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in Him.

Then [Jesus] called the crowd {to Him} along with His disciples, [and] He told them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.

[Now] Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and [the soldiers] forced [him] to carry the cross of [Jesus].

come down from the cross [and] save Yourself!

{Let} the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe! And even those who were crucified with Him berated Him.

Then [Jesus] said to all of them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me.

[And] whoever {does} not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.

As [the soldiers] led Him away they seized Simon of Cyrene on his way in from the country, [and] they put the cross on him to carry behind Jesus.

Carrying [His] own cross, He went out to [The] Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.

Pilate also had a notice posted on the cross. It read JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

Near the cross of Jesus stood His mother and [her] sister, [as well as] Mary the [wife] of Clopas and Mary Magdalene.

It was [the] day of Preparation, [and] [the next] day was a High Sabbath. In order that the bodies would not remain on the cross during the Sabbath, the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and [the bodies] removed.

For Christ {did} not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with words of wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of [its] power.

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is [the] power of God.

Now, brothers, if I {am} still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.

Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. [They] only [ do this ] to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.

But as for me, may {I} never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which [the] world has been crucified to me, and I [to the] world.

and reconciling both [of them] to God in one body through the cross, by which He put to death [their] hostility.

And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself [and] became obedient to death — even death on [a] cross.

For [as] I have often told you {before}, and now say [again] even with tears: Many live [as] enemies of the cross of Christ.

and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross

having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away nailing it to the cross!

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of [our] faith, who for the joy set before Him endured [the] cross, scorning [its] shame, and sat down at [the] right hand of the throne of God.