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Simon in the Bible.

A Jew of Cyrene, in North Africa, then a province of Libya. The King James Version names Simon in 3 verses, from Matthew 27:32 to Luke 23:26. The King James Version also gives the name Simon to 3 other people, listed on this page.

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Simon’s family.

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His family as Theographic Bible Metadata lists it; each name opens its own page.

Who Simon was.

A Jew of Cyrene, in North Africa, then a province of Libya. A hundred thousand Jews from Palestine had been settled in this province by Ptolemy Soter (B.C. 323-285), where by this time they had greatly increased in number. They had a synagogue in Jerusalem for such of their number as went thither to the annual feasts. Simon was seized by the soldiers as the procession wended its way to the place of crucifixion as he was passing by, and the heavy cross which Christ from failing strength could no longer bear was laid on his shoulders. Perhaps they seized him because he showed sympathy with Jesus. He was the “father of Alexander and Rufus” (Matt. 27:32). Possibly this Simon may have been one of the “men of Cyrene” who preached the word to the Greeks (Acts 11:20).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Places in Simon’s story.

  • Cyrenenamed with him in 3 verses

Each opens its own page: where it is on the map and every verse.

All 3 verses that name this Simon.

Matthew 1

  • Matthew 27:32And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.

Mark 1

  • Mark 15:21And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.

Luke 1

  • Luke 23:26And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.

Other people called Simon.

Simon, One of the brothers of our Lord.

Named in 2 verses.

  • Matthew 13:55Is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
  • Mark 6:3Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.

Simon, a leper of Bethany, in whose house Mary anointed our Lord’s….

Named in 2 verses.

  • Matthew 26:6Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
  • Mark 14:3And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.

Simon, the father of Judas Iscariot.

Named in 2 verses.

  • John 12:4Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, which should betray him,
  • John 13:2And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him;

More people of the name.

Simon PeterSimon ZelotesSimon the PhariseeSimon the SorcererSimon the Tanner

Questions about Simon.

Who was Simon in the Bible?

A Jew of Cyrene, in North Africa, then a province of Libya. The King James Version names Simon in 3 verses, from Matthew 27:32 to Luke 23:26.

Who were Simon’s children?

BibleLectio’s family tree lists Rufus and Alexander.

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