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Where was he crucified?
Matthew and Mark: At “a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull” ([Matt. xxvii, 33]; [Mark xv, 22]).
Luke: At Calvary ([xxiii, 33]).
Calvary, like Golgotha, means a place of skulls in the vicinity of Jerusalem. The explanation given by Christian commentators is that “it was a spot where executions ordinarily took place, and therefore abounded in skulls.” Fleetwood says it “was called Golgotha, or Place of Skulls, from the criminals’ bones which lay scattered there” (Life of Christ, p. 416). Where Jewish customs prevailed—and it is admitted that they did prevail in Jerusalem and Judea at this time, and had for hundreds of years—a human skull or bone was not allowed to be exposed for even a moment.