Luke 23:24-26

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Luke 23:24-26 The Passion Translation (TPT)

²⁴Pilate caved in to the crowd and ordered that the will of the people be done. ²⁵Then he released the guilty murderer Barabbas, as they had insisted, and handed Jesus over to be crucified.

The Crucifixion of Jesus

²⁶As the guards led Jesus to be crucified, there was an African man in the crowd named Simon, from Libya.^[a] He had just arrived from a rural village to keep the Feast of the Passover. The guards laid Jesus’ cross on Simon’s shoulders^[b] and forced him to walk behind Jesus and carry his cross.

Footnotes:

Luke 23:26 The text is literally “from Cyrene,” which is present-day Tripoli, Libya.
Luke 23:26 By this time Jesus had been severely beaten and flogged, had gone days without sleep, and was carrying a heavy load. Presumably this is why Simon was compelled to carry the cross for him.

The Passion Translation (TPT)