King James Version (KJV)
Mark 15:21
“And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.”
Verse in context — Mark 15
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And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing [their] knees worshipped him.
20
And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him.
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And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.
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And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.
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And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received [it] not.
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