32. On the way they met a man from Cyrene named Simon, and they forced him to carry Jesus' cross.
33. They came to a place named Golgotha, which means “Place of a Skull”.
34. There they gave Jesus some wine mixed with a drug to ease the pain. But when Jesus tasted what it was, he refused to drink it.
35. The soldiers nailed Jesus to a cross and gambled to see who would get his clothes.
36. Then they sat down to guard him.
37. Above his head they put a sign that told why he was nailed there. It read, “This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.”