“They brought him to the place called Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, “The place of a skull.””
— WEB
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“They brought him to the place called Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, “The place of a skull.””
— WEB
“And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.”
— KJV
“And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.”
— ASV
We have here the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus. I. The place where he was crucified; it was called Golgotha - the place of a scull: some think, because of the heads of malefactors that were there cut off: it was the common place of execution, as Tyburn, for he was in all respects numbered with the transgressors. I know not how to give any credit to it, but divers of the ancients mention it as a current tradition, that in this place our first father Adam was buried, and they think it highly congruous that there Christ should be crucified; for as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive. Tertullian, Origen, Chrysostom, and Epiphanius (great names), take notice of it; nay, Cyprian adds, Creditur piis - Many good people believe that the blood of Christ crucified did trickle down upon the scull of Adam, who was buried in the same place. Something more credible is the tradition, that this mount Calvary was that mountain in the land of Moriah (and in the land of Moriah it certainly was, for so the country about Jerusalem was called), on which Isaac was to be offered; and the ram was offered instead of him; and then Abraham had an eye to this day of Christ, when he called the place Jehovah-jireh - The Lord will provide, expecting that so it would be seen in the mount of the Lord. II.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary (public domain)
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