Pilate questions, Herod mocks, Priests plot, crowd screams, Barabbus smiles, Jesus silent.
Simon serves, women wail, crowd watches, leaders mock, Jesus prays
Soldier repents, crowd grieves, women watch, Jesus dies
Joseph risks, women prepare
Women wonder, disciples run, Jesus absent
Disciples worship, Jesus smiles
In completing this exercise I notice that women are mentioned more than the disciples. I think it’s fair to say that the activities of the women in these most tender moments of Christ’s ministry are more significant than the men’s.
Simon from Cyrene must have become renown after this. I wonder what he was thinking when they tore him away from his traveling companions and made him carry the cross? Was he a follower? Did he become one later? In Mark 15 his sons names are mentioned as well, That most likely means that his sons were known to the early church. Maybe he and his boys became Christians. How many sons can say “dad helped Jesus carry the cross”?