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Mark 15:21-23
Contemporary English Version
Mark 15:21-23
Contemporary English Version
21 (A) Simon from Cyrene happened to be coming in from a farm, and they forced him to carry Jesus' cross. Simon was the father of Alexander and Rufus.
Jesus Is Nailed to a Cross
(Matthew 27.31-44; Luke 23.27-43; John 19.17-27)
22 The soldiers took Jesus to Golgotha, which means “Place of a Skull.”[a] 23 There they gave him some wine mixed with a drug to ease the pain, but he refused to drink it.
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- 15.22 Place of a Skull: The place was probably given this name because it was near a large rock in the shape of a human skull.
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