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And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me - a saying which our Lord once and again emphatically reiterates (Mat 16:24; Luk 9:23; Luk 14:27). We have become so accustomed to this expression - “taking up one’s cross” - in the sense of “being prepared for trials in general for Christ’s sake,” that we are apt to lose sight of its primary and proper sense here - “a preparedness to go forth even to crucifixion,” as when our Lord had to bear His own cross on His way to Calvary - a saying the more remarkable as our Lord had not as yet given a hint that He would die this death, nor was crucifixion a Jewish mode of capital punishment.