Matthew 27:33

When they came to a place called “Golgotha”, that is to say, “The place of a skull,”

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WEBBE

When they came to a place called “Golgotha”, that is to say, “The place of a skull,”

BSB

And when they came to a place called Golgotha, which means The Place of the Skull,

KJV

And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,

ASV

And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, The place of a skull,

BBE

And when they came to the place named Golgotha, that is to say, Dead Man's Head,

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Καὶ Kai And G2532 ἐλθόντες elthontes having come G2064 εἰς eis to G1519 τόπον topon a place G5117 λεγόμενον legomenon being named G3004 Γολγοθᾶ Golgotha Golgotha G1115 ὅ ho which G3739 ἐστιν estin is G1510 κρανίου kraniou of a Skull G2898 τόπος topos Place G5117 λεγόμενος legomenos being named G3004

The early church

Such is the place of the cross, set up in the centre of the earth, that it might be equally free to all nations to attain the knowledge of God.
Hilary of Poitiers · d. 367Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
(Hom. de Cruc. et Lat. ii.) The Lord would not suffer under a roof, or in the Jewish Temple, that you should not suppose that He was offered for that people alone; but without the city, without the walls, that you might know that the sacrifice was common, that it was the offering of the whole earth, that the purification was general.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
I have heard Calvary expounded as the spot in which Adam was buried, as though it had been so called from the head of the old man being buried there. A plausible interpretation, and agreeable to the ears of the people, yet not a true one. Without the city outside the gate are the places where criminals are executed, and these have got the name of Calvary, that is, of the beheaded. And Jesus was crucified there, that where the plot of criminals had been, there might be set up the flag of martyrdom. But Adam was buried near Ebron and Arbee, as we read in the volume of Jesus the son of Navec.
Jerome · d. 420Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
Golgotha is a Syriac word, and is interpreted Calvary.
Rabanus Maurus · d. 856Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 31–34

Christ was led as a Lamb to the slaughter, as a Sacrifice to the altar. Even the mercies of the wicked are really cruel. Taking the cross from him, they compelled one Simon to bear it. Make us ready, O Lord, to bear the cross thou hast appointed us, and daily to take it up with cheerfulness, following thee. Was ever sorrow like unto his sorrow? And when we behold what manner of death he died, let us in that behold with what manner of love he loved us. As if death, so painful a death, were not enough, they added to its bitterness and terror in several ways.

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Mark 15:22Luke 23:33John 19:17

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