Luke 23:26
AND as they led him away, they laid hold on Shemun Kurinoya, who was coming from the country, and they laid on him the cross, that he might bear (it) after Jeshu.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
27And there followed him much people, and those women who mourned and wailed for him.
Cross References
Matthew 27:32And when they had gone forth, they found a Kurinean man whose name was Shemun: this (man) they compel to carry his cross.
Luke 9:23And he said before all, Whoever willeth to come after me, must deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and come after me.
John 19:16Then delivered he him to them, that they might crucify him.
Acts 6:6And these they set before the apostles: and while praying they laid upon them the hand.
Acts 13:1But there were in the church of Antiokia prophets and teachers, Bar Naba and Shemun who was called Niger, and Lukios who was from the city of Kyrene, and Manael, a fosterbrother of Herodes Tetrarka, and Shaol.
Matthew Henry on Luke 23:14-26
Barabbas Preferred to Christ. 13 And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, 14 Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him: 15 No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him. 16 I will therefore chastise him, and release him. 17 (For of necessity he must release… Read the whole commentary →