Matthew 27:32
The Savior is led to the saving suffering. They laid his cross on Simon of Cyrene. Another of the holy evangelists also said that Jesus himself “bore” (John 19:17) the wood. Both are wholly true: the Savior bore the cross, and somewhere in the middle of the road they met the Cyrenean, seized him, and transferred the cross onto him. For it was said about him through Isaiah’s voice: “A child was born to us, a son also was given to us, whose rule is upon his shoulder.” (Isaiah 9:6) For his rule became the cross, through which he has reigned over what is under heaven — if it is true that he “became obedient unto death, even death of a cross; therefore God also highly exalted him.” (Philippians 2:8–9)
Greek
Ἄγεται μὲν ὁ σωτὴρ ἐπὶ τὸ σωτήριον πάθος. Σίμωνι δὲ Κυρη ναίῳ ἐπέθηκαν τὸν σταυρὸν αὐτοῦ. ἕτερος δὲ τῶν ἁγίων εὐαγγελιστῶν καὶ αὐτὸν ἔφη τὸν Ἰησοῦν "βαστάσαι" τὸ ξύλον. ἀληθῆ δὲ πάντως ἀμφότερα· ἤνεγκε μὲν γὰρ τὸν σταυρὸν ὁ σωτήρ, κατὰ μέσην δέ πως τὴν ὁδὸν ὑπαντήσαντες τὸν Κυρηναῖον κατεσχήκασιν καὶ μετέθηκαν ἐπ' αὐτὸν <τὸν> σταυρόν. εἴρηται γὰρ περὶ αὐτοῦ διὰ φωνῆς Ἠσαίου, ὅτι "παιδίον ἐγεννήθη ἡμῖν, υἱὸς καὶ ἐδόθη ἡμῖν, οὗ ἡ ἀρχὴ ἐπὶ τοῦ ὤμου αὐτοῦ"· ἀρχὴ γὰρ αὐτοῦ γέγονεν ὁ σταυρός, δι' οὗ βεβασίλευκε τῆς ὑπ' οὐρανοῦ, εἴπερ ἐστὶν ἀληθές, ὅτι "μέχρι θανάτου" γέγονεν "ὑπήκοος, θανάτου δὲ σταυροῦ, διὸ καὶ ὁ θεὸς αὐτὸν ὑπερύψωσεν".