When they finished making fun of him, they took off the long purple coat and put his own clothes back on him. Then they took him out to another place to kill him.
There was a man walking past them on the road at that time. He was coming into the city from the bush. His name was Simon, and he was from the country called Cyrene. (He was the father of our friends Alexander and Rufus.) The soldiers forced Simon to carry the cross for Jesus.