And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.
And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.
and they bring him to the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, `Place of a skull;'
And they bring him to the place [called] Golgotha, which, being interpreted, is Place of a skull.
Mark — The Gospel of the servant in motion. The narrative hinges at Peter's confession (8:27). Before: the Servant revealed. After: the Servant suffers.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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When they came to the place called The Skull, they crucified Him there, along with the criminals, one on His right and the other on His left.
And when they came to a place called Golgotha, which means The Place of the Skull,
Carrying His own cross, He went out to The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.
A great number of people followed Him, including women who kept mourning and wailing for Him.
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(ubi sup.) There follows: And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is being interpreted, the place of Calvary. There are places without the city and the gate, in which the heads of condemned persons are cut off, and which receive the name of Calvary, that is, of the beheaded. But the Lord was crucified there, that where once was the field of the condemned, there the standards of martyrdom might be lifted up.
Bede· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 735patristic
And they bring him unto the place, Golgotha,.... A famous, or rather an infamous one, well known, and much noted for the many executions there: which is, being interpreted, the place of a skull; because the skulls of men that had been executed and buried there, being dug up again, lay scattered about; See Gill on Mat 27:33.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed
