Let us go to him outside the camp, then, bearing his obloquy
considering obloquy with the messiah to be richer wealth than all Egypt's treasures — for he had an eye to the Reward.
The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy of suffering dishonour for the sake of the Name;
Blessed are you when men will hate you, when they will excommunicate you and denounce you and defame you as wicked on account of the Son of man;
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me;
It makes me satisfied, for Christ's sake, with weakness, insults, trouble, persecution, and calamity; for I am strong just when I am weak.
Blessed are you when men denounce you and persecute you and utter all manner of evil against you for my sake;
Compare him who steadily endured all that hostility from sinful men, so as to keep your own hearts from fainting and failing.
and it astonishes them that you will not plunge with them still into the same flood of profligacy. They abuse you,
As they went out they met a Cyrenian called Simon, whom they forced to carry his cross.
He said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross day after day, and so follow me;
our eyes fixed upon Jesus as the pioneer and the perfection of faith — upon Jesus who, in order to reach his own appointed joy, steadily endured the cross, thinking nothing of its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
You have not had to shed blood yet in the struggle against sin.