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  2. Simon of Cyrene - Wikipedia

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    It has also been suggested that the Rufus (in Greek: Ῥοῦφον or Rhouphon) mentioned by Paul in Romans 16:13 is the son of Simon of Cyrene. [8] Some also link Simon himself with the "men of Cyrene" who preached the Gospel to the Hellenized Jews (Greek: Ελληνιστάς) [9] in Acts 11:20. [5] On the other hand, Simon's name alone does ...

  3. Remembering Simon the Cyrene, who carried the cross for ... - AOL

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    Simon the Cyrene! A man from that far away African country of Cyrenaica -- a noted seaport country on the southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. What brought him there was unknown. But we do not ...

  4. Chapel of Simon of Cyrene - Wikipedia

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    The Chapel of Simon of Cyrene is a Catholic chapel belonging to the Franciscans in the Old City of Jerusalem. [ 1 ] The place marks the fifth station of Via Dolorosa , and refers to the biblical episode in which Simon of Cyrene takes Jesus' cross, and carries it for him. [ 2 ]

  5. Gospel of Basilides - Wikipedia

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    Basilides is reported as having taught a docetic doctrine of Christ's passion.Although Irenaeus’s makes no mention of Basilides having written a gospel, he does record him as teaching that Christ in Jesus, as a wholly divine being, could not suffer bodily pain and did not die on the cross; but that the person crucified was, in fact, Simon of Cyrene.

  6. Simon, brother of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    James Tabor, in his controversial book The Jesus Dynasty, suggests that Simon was the son of Mary and Clophas. [7] While Robert Eisenman suggests he was Simon Cephas (Simon the Rock), known in Greek as Peter (from petros "rock"), who led the Jewish Christian community after the death of James in 62 CE.

  7. New Testament people named Simon - Wikipedia

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    F.P. Dutripon's Latin Bible concordance (Paris 1838) identified 14 people named Simon and 5 named Simeon in the Bible, 10 and 3 of whom featured in the New Testament, respectively. [ note 1 ] [ 4 ] Dutch Franciscan Martialis Vreeswijk (1925) argued that Dutripon should have equated Simon, brother of Jesus and Simon the Zealot , as well as Simon ...

  8. Simon the Zealot - Wikipedia

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    Simon is called "Zelotes" in Luke and Acts (Luke 6:15 Acts 1:13). For this reason, it is generally assumed that Simon was a former member of the political party, the Zealots. In Matthew and Mark, however, he is called "Kananites" in the Byzantine majority and "Kananaios" in the Alexandrian manuscripts and the Textus Receptus (Matthew 10:4 Mark ...

  9. Cyrenaica - Wikipedia

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    According to the Synoptic Gospels, Simon of Cyrene carried the cross of Jesus Christ to the crucifixion. According to one tradition, Mark the Evangelist was born in the Pentapolis, and later returned after preaching with Paul the Apostle in Colosse (Col 4:10) and Rome (Phil 24; 2 Tim 4:11); from Pentapolis he made his way to Alexandria. [16]