3 others in the registry answer to the name Alexander. Every Alexander in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Mark 15:21
- last named
- Mark 15:21
- period
- the New Testament
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Alexander?
Alexander is mentioned briefly in the Gospel of Mark as the son of Simon of Cyrene, along with his brother Rufus. (Mrk.15.21)
Simon of Cyrene, their father, was a passerby who was coming from the country when he encountered the procession leading Jesus to the crucifixion site. The Roman soldiers compelled Simon to carry Jesus' cross, likely because Jesus was exhausted from the physical abuse he had endured. (Mrk.15.21)
The mention of Alexander and Rufus suggests that they were known to the early Christian community for which Mark wrote his Gospel. The fact that they are named indicates that they may have become followers of Jesus or were at least familiar to the readers of the Gospel.
Cyrene was a city in present-day Libya, and the presence of Simon and his sons in Jerusalem during the Passover festival suggests that they were Jewish pilgrims who had come to celebrate the feast.
Apart from this brief mention, no further information is provided about Alexander's life, his reaction to his father's involvement in Jesus' crucifixion, or his subsequent role in the early Christian community.
The inclusion of Alexander and Rufus in the Gospel narrative serves to provide a historical detail and to connect the story of Jesus' crucifixion to individuals who were known to the early church.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Child of
- SimonregistryMark 15:21
Sibling of
- Rufusregistry, no verse
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Alexander is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Mark (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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