Substitution is the key to the Passion narrative. Jesus Christ died at the feast of Passover which remembered the sacrifice of a lamb whose death enabled God to spare the firstborn of each family (Exodus 12:12-13). John the Baptist had declared Jesus to be 'the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world' (John 1:29). The innocent Jesus was substituted for the guilty Barabbas (Matthew 27:24-26), and the bystander Simon from Cyrene (now Libya in North Africa) was the substitute to carry the crosspiece on which Jesus would be nailed.
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