What was the name of the site where Jesus was crucified?

Golgotha, or Calvary, was, according to the Gospels, a site immediately outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus was crucified. There is no consensus as to the location of the site. John (19:20) describes the crucifixion site as being "near the city". According to Hebrews (Hebrews 13:12), it was "outside the city wall". Matthew 27:39 and Mark 15:29 both note that the location would have been accessible to "passers-by". Thus, locating the crucifixion site involves identifying a site that, in the city of Jerusalem some four decades before its destruction in AD 70, would have been outside the city walls and well visible to passers-by.

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Alan Waites

Bible Answer: Jesus was crucified on a hill called Golgotha, according to the gospels. And when they came to a place called Golgotha, which means Place of a Skull . . . Matthew 27:33 (NASB) Then they brought Him to the place Golgotha, which is translated, Place of a Skull. Mark 15:22 (NASB) When they came to the place called The Skull,...

Roslyn Russell

Oddly, I am about to go into a hospital called Calvary John James - it is run by the Little Sisters of Mary. I agree with Alan Waites though - while we call the site Calvary, Golgotha is the name given in the Gospels.

Annie

I answered correctly. Would like to go to the Holy Land someday.

✨KRISTA✨

EricP, F-a-i-t-h...Sounds like you lost yours somewhere in your life's journey?!🙏❤

Cat Woman

These portraits of "Nordic" Jesus are so illogical and outdated. Yeshua was a Middle Eastern man of color.

c r r b

c r r b, That scripture I quoted is found in Genesis 3: 15 .....KJV ....

c r r b

Alan Waites, Do you know why it is called "Place of the skull" ?

Roselyn L Prollo

Jesus was crucified at the spot outside the Jerusalem called Golgotha which Aramaic " means place of skull.

Joanne Serin

Robert L Jackson, the word "called" isn't there.

Joanne Serin

Laurette Pearlman, I was there in Jan. 2016.

Joanne Serin

Javier Iriondo Verea, that's a city in Canada.

illonabird

Chriss Crockford, Sounded spot on to me.

EricP

Even though I got it right, because I was raised in the Mt Calvary Baptist Church, according to the Bible, he was crucified on the hill of Golgotha. Now as an atheist I pose 1 simple question. If you can’t even prove he existed, how then do you know he was crucified? Any answer will do that doesn’t come from the Bible, but actual proof.

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He was sent to Calvary

David Coe

There is no historical record of a man Jeshua bar Joseph being executed by the Roman authorities in that time period. And the Romans kept VERY good records....