Gospel Parallels: The Way to Golgotha
Mark 15.20–21, 27 || Matt 27.31–32, 38 || Luke 23.26–32 || John 19.17–18
Parallel is from Aland’s Synopsis of the Four Gospels, parallel #343
Mark
When they had finished mocking him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes back on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.
The soldiers forced a passerby to carry his cross, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country (he was the father of Alexander and Rufus). (Mark 15.20–21 NET)
And they crucified two outlaws with him, one on his right and one on his left. (Mark 15.27 NET)
Matthew
When they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes back on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.
As they were going out, they found a man from Cyrene named Simon, whom they forced to carry his cross. (Matthew 27.31–32 NET)
Then two outlaws were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left. (Matthew 27.38 NET)
Luke
As they led him away, they seized Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country. They placed the cross on his back and made him carry it behind Jesus. A great number of the people followed him, among them women who were mourning and wailing for him. But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’ Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’ For if such things are done when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
Two other criminals were also led away to be executed with him. (Luke 23.26–32 NET)
John
and carrying his own cross he went out to the place called “The Place of the Skull” (called in Aramaic Golgotha). There they crucified him along with two others, one on each side, with Jesus in the middle. (John 19.17–18 NET)
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