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Bible Photo & Explanation: This rocky cliff, which resembles a skull and is just outside of Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate (John 19:17, 20), is a possible site of Golgotha, where the Crucifixion took place.
Significant Event: After Jesus was scourged and mocked, He was brought to “a place called Golgotha, … a place of a skull,” where He was crucified (Matt. 27:26–35; John 19:17–18). (See BD Golgotha.)
Calvary BD: A skull. The name by which the KJV (Luke 23:33) denotes the place where our Lord was crucified. Calvary is merely an English form of the Latin word calvaria, which is itself a translation of the Hebrew word Golgotha, “a skull.” The popular expression “Mount Calvary” is not warranted by any statement in the Gospels. There is no mention of a mount in any of the narratives of the Crucifixion. See Golgotha.
Luke 23:33: And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.