21 Simon from Cyrene happened to be coming in from a farm, and they forced him to carry Jesus' cross. Simon was the father of Alexander and Rufus.
22 The soldiers took Jesus to Golgotha, which means “Place of a Skull”.
23 There they gave him some wine mixed with a drug to ease the pain, but he refused to drink it.
24 They nailed Jesus to a cross and gambled to see who would get his clothes.
25 It was about nine o'clock in the morning when they nailed him to the cross.
26 On it was a sign that told why he was nailed there. It read, “This is the King of the Jews.”
27-28 The soldiers also nailed two criminals on crosses, one to the right of Jesus and the other to his left.