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Matthew 27:31-36 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

31. After they finished making fun of him, the soldiers took off the robe and put his own clothes on him again. Then they led him away to be killed on a cross.

32. The soldiers were going out of the city with Jesus. They saw a man from Cyrene named Simon, and they forced him to carry Jesus’ cross.

33. They came to the place called Golgotha. (Golgotha means “The Place of the Skull.”)

34. There the soldiers gave Jesus some wine mixed with gall. But when he tasted it, he refused to drink it.

35. The soldiers nailed Jesus to a cross. Then they threw dice to divide his clothes between them.

36. The soldiers stayed there to guard him.

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