Luke 23:26. When they led him away. See on Matthew 27:32; Mark 15:21. (John omits this incident.)

To bear it after Jesus. The hinder part alone was laid upon Simon. The relief was comparatively slight; there is no proof that our Lord was sinking under the load. He who bears the cross after Jesus, bears the lightest end of it.

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