Bible Verses about the Cross
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Compiled by The BibleStudyTools Staff
on 06/18/2026
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Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
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Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.
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Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.
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Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.
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And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.
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and will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day he will be raised to life!”
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“As you know, the Passover is two days away—and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.”
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The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him;
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“What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called the Messiah?” Pilate asked. They all answered, “Crucify him!”
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“Why? What crime has he committed?” asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify him!”
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When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “It is your responsibility!”
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All the people answered, “His blood is on us and on our children!”
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Then he released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.
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“Crucify him!” they shouted.
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“Why? What crime has he committed?” asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify him!”
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Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.
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But they kept shouting, “Crucify him! Crucify him!”
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For the third time he spoke to them: “Why? What crime has this man committed? I have found in him no grounds for the death penalty. Therefore I will have him punished and then release him.”
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But with loud shouts they insistently demanded that he be crucified, and their shouts prevailed.
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After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.
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As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross.
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They came to a place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”).
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There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it.
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When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots.
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And sitting down, they kept watch over him there.
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Above his head they placed the written charge against him: THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
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Two rebels were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left.
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Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads
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and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!”
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In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him.
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“He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! He’s the king of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.
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And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.
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A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the cross.
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They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”).
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Then they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it.
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And they crucified him. Dividing up his clothes, they cast lots to see what each would get.
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It was nine in the morning when they crucified him.
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The written notice of the charge against him read: THE KING OF THE JEWS.
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They crucified two rebels with him, one on his right and one on his left.
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Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days,
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come down from the cross and save yourself !”
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In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the law mocked him among themselves. “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself!
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As the soldiers led him away, they seized Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus.
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When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals—one on his right, the other on his left.
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Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha).
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There they crucified him, and with him two others—one on each side and Jesus in the middle.
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Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
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Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek.
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The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews.”
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Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
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When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.
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“Let’s not tear it,” they said to one another. “Let’s decide by lot who will get it.” This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled that said, “They divided my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment.”So this is what the soldiers did.
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Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
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When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman,here is your son,”
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and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.
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Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”
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A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips.
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When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
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Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.
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The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other.
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But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
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Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water.
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The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe.
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These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken,”
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and, as another scripture says, “They will look on the one they have pierced.”
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Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders. With Pilate’s permission, he came and took the body away.
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He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.
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Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs.
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At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.
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For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with wisdom and eloquence, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
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For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
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Brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.
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Those who want to impress people by means of the flesh are trying to compel you to be circumcised. The only reason they do this is to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.
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Not even those who are circumcised keep the law, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast about your circumcision in the flesh.
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May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
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and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.
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And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!
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For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
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and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
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having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.
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fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.