The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…

2. They led him betwixt two thieves, Malefactors justly condemned, to add disgrace unto him, as if he were a Malefactor like them. Luk. 23.32. As they placed them in the execution, so did they in leading them. Jesus was placed in the middle, and the thieves, one at his right hand, and the other at his left, he in the middle, as the worst of them all.

2. They led him betwixt two theeves, Malefactors justly condemned, to add disgrace unto him, as if he were a Malefactor like them. Luk. 23.32. As they placed them in the execution, so did they in leading them. Jesus was placed in the middle, and the theeves, one at his right hand, and the other at his left, he in the middle, as the worst of them all.

3. They compel Simon to carry the hinder end of the cross after him; in which history consider.

1. The place where they do this, Math. 27.32. As they came out: Out of what, or whence? Either out of the Judgement-Hall, where they mocked him, & from whence they led him: Or when they came out of the city to go to Golgotha. It is most probable it was as they came out of the city, because Simon was coming out of the country on his way, Luk. 23.26. And they had made our Lord Jesus to carry his cross until he was out of the city; so long as he was able to do it. His body was macerated by the loss of blood, in his two whippings, and twice crowning with Thorns, with want of rest and sustenance for so long a time. His straining under an heavy burden, would rend and tear his wounded back and head, with great pain and torment, which would disable him from going so fast as they (being in hast) would have him go: It is like also, that they had made his cross longer then others, that they might advance him higher, and more visible to all. Haman