You had done your duty in what was perhaps the very first act of Christian charity: you performed an act of mercy when you helped Jesus carry the cross. Simon of Cyrene, you are a figure of ...

Luke deviates a bit and says that the soldiers “seized a man, Simon of Cyrene, coming in from the country and placed on him the cross to carry behind Jesus” (23:26). Roman soldiers had the ...

Nothing else is specifically said about Simon the Cyrene. Whatever his life had been about, he now is personally involved in the Death of Jesus. There is no known biography nor autobiography of ...

Simon of Cyrene encounters just such a cross. It’s hard not to ponder his place in the Passion story and ask, “What was the point?” Simon shows up in the synoptic Gospels at history’s darkest hour.

As they went out, they came upon a man of Cyrene, Simon by name; this man they compelled to carry his cross. Jesus told his disciples, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and ...

Let me introduce Simon of Cyrene. Jesus is on his way to his death, sentenced by Pilate to be crucified, carrying his cross down the Via Dolorosa out of the city he entered so triumphantly ...

Henry Masters has a thing for Simon of Cyrene. Nearly two decades ago, Masters wrote and published a book about the African man summoned from the crowd to carry Jesus’ cross to Calvary. Now, at age 76 ...

From the Gospel according to Matthew. 27:32; 16:24 As they went out, they came upon a man of Cyrene, Simon by name; this man they compelled to carry his cross. Jesus told his disciples, “If any man ...