Who help Jesus carry the cross?
Who help Jesus carry the cross?
Simon of Cyrene was the man who helped Jesus carry the cross. For that, he is “immortalized” in the pages of Scripture. Hopefully, after receiving an extreme close-up of the suffering Jesus endured on our behalf, Simon of Cyrene also came to trust Jesus as His Savior.
Why did Simon of Cyrene carry the cross?
Simon of Cyrene was the man pulled from the crowd who was commanded to carry the cross of Jesus. He likely felt the blood of Jesus and even touched the broken body of Christ on the day Jesus died. His unique experience likely led to him coming to faith in Jesus himself. This may have even taken place only a few weeks later at the Day of Pentecost.
Who was Simon of Cyrene in the Gospels?
Answer: Simon of Cyrene is mentioned in three of the four Gospels as the man impelled by the Roman soldiers to carry Jesus’ cross out of Jerusalem.
Where did Jesus live when he was on the cross?
Cyrene was a city in what is now modern Libya in Northern Africa and had a significant Jewish population. The fact that he is ‘of Cyrene’ tells us that he did not live in Jerusalem where this event takes place but had traveled there from his home.
Who was the man that carried Jesus cross?
As they went out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. They compelled this man to carry his cross. (Matthew 27:32 ESV) And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus.
Simon of Cyrene was the man pulled from the crowd who was commanded to carry the cross of Jesus. He likely felt the blood of Jesus and even touched the broken body of Christ on the day Jesus died. His unique experience likely led to him coming to faith in Jesus himself. This may have even taken place only a few weeks later at the Day of Pentecost.
Answer: Simon of Cyrene is mentioned in three of the four Gospels as the man impelled by the Roman soldiers to carry Jesus’ cross out of Jerusalem.
Cyrene was a city in what is now modern Libya in Northern Africa and had a significant Jewish population. The fact that he is ‘of Cyrene’ tells us that he did not live in Jerusalem where this event takes place but had traveled there from his home.