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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Luke 23:26 - 23:26
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Cyrenian - of Cyrene, in Libya, on the north coast of Africa, where were many Jews who had a synagogue at Jerusalem (Act 6:9, and see Act 2:10). He was “the father of Alexander and Rufus” (Mar 15:21), probably better known afterwards than himself, as disciples. (See Rom 16:13).
out of the country - and casually drawn into that part of the crowd.
laid the cross - “Him they compel to bear His cross,” (Mat 27:32) - sweet compulsion, if it issued in him or his sons voluntarily “taking up their cross!” It would appear that our Lord had first to bear His own cross (Joh 19:17), but being from exhaustion unable to proceed, it was laid on another to bear it “after Him.”