Lexicon :: Strong's G4716 - stauros

“And whoever doesn’t take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

As they were going out, they found a Cyrenian man named Simon. They forced him to carry his cross.

and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross! ”

“He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the King of Israel! Let him[fn] come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.

Calling the crowd along with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

Looking at him, Jesus loved him and said to him, “You lack one thing: Go, sell all you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come,[fn] follow me.”

They forced a man coming in from the country, who was passing by, to carry Jesus’s cross. He was Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus.

“save yourself by coming down from the cross! ”

“Let the Messiah, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe.” Even those who were crucified with him taunted him.

Then he said to them all, “If anyone wants to follow after[fn] me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily,[fn] and follow me.

“Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

As they led him away, they seized Simon, a Cyrenian, who was coming in from the country, and laid the cross on him to carry behind Jesus.

Carrying the cross by himself, he went out to what is called Place of the Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.

Pilate also had a sign made and put on the cross. It said: Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.

Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

Since it was the preparation day, the Jews did not want the bodies to remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special[fn] day). They requested that Pilate have the men’s legs broken and that their bodies be taken away.

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel ​— ​not with eloquent wisdom, so that the cross of Christ will not be emptied of its effect.

Now brothers and sisters, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.

Those who want to make a good impression in the flesh are the ones who would compel you to be circumcised ​— ​but only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

But as for me, I will never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. The world has been crucified to me through the cross, and I to the world.

He did this so that he might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross by which he put the hostility to death.[fn]

he humbled himself by becoming obedient

to the point of death —

even to death on a cross.

For I have often told you, and now say again with tears, that many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

and through him to reconcile

everything to himself,

whether things on earth or things in heaven,

by making peace

through his blood, shed on the cross.[fn]

He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.

keeping our eyes on Jesus,[fn] the pioneer and perfecter[fn] of our faith. For the joy that lay before him,[fn] he endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.