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.
37. They put a sign above his head with the charge against him written on it: “this is jesus, the king of the jews.”
38. Two criminals were nailed to crosses beside Jesus—one on the right and the other on the left.