Matthew 27:32-34

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Jesus Is Crucified^(A)

³² ·As the soldiers were going out of the city with Jesus [^LAs they went out], they ·met [found; came across] a man from Cyrene [^Ca city in northern Africa, in present-day Libya], named Simon, and forced him to carry the cross for Jesus. ³³ They all came to the place called Golgotha, which means [^Cin Aramaic] the Place of the Skull. ³⁴ ·The soldiers [^LThey; ^Cthis could be the soldiers or the women of Jerusalem] gave Jesus wine mixed with gall to drink [^Cthe gall was either a sedative or further mockery, making the wine bitter; Ps. 69:21; Prov. 31:6]. He tasted the wine but refused to drink it.