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Simon of Cyrene
Simon of Cyrene was the man whom Roman soldiers seized and compelled to carry the cross for Jesus as Jesus was being led away to be crucified. He appears in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
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- Alexander (Son of Simon)People
Alexander was a son of Simon of Cyrene, the man who carried Jesus' cross, and the brother of Rufus. He is mentioned by name only once, in Mark 15:21.
- RufusPeople
Rufus appears in the Gospel of Mark as a son of Simon of Cyrene, the man compelled to carry the cross of Jesus. Scholars differ on whether he is the same Rufus whom Paul greets in Romans 16.
- CyreneBible
Cyrene was a Greek city on the northeastern coast of present-day Libya in North Africa. In the New Testament it appears as the hometown of Simon, who carried the cross for Jesus, and as the place of origin of early Christian evangelists who preached the gospel to Gentiles in Antioch.
- BasilidesPeople
Basilides was a Christian Gnostic teacher who taught in Alexandria, Egypt, in the first half of the second century. The Church Fathers treated him as a leading representative of heresy and attributed to him the claim that Simon of Cyrene was crucified in place of Jesus.
- Crucifixion of JesusBible
The crucifixion is the event in which Jesus Christ, sentenced by the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, was nailed to a cross and died at Golgotha outside the walls of Jerusalem. All four Gospels record it.
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- Matthew 27:32
And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.
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