22And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.
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And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, …
And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: …
And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-32)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 cur…
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