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Golgotha, according to the Smith's Bible Dictionary, is the Hebrew name of the spot at which our Lord was crucified (Matt. 27:33, Mark 15:22, John 19:17). By these three Apostles it is interpeted to mean the "place of a skull." Luke's words are as follows- "the place which is called 'a skull'- not, as in the other Gospels, "of a skull", thus employing the Greek term exactly as they do the Hebrew one. Two explanations of the name are given: (1) that it was a spot where executions ordinarily took place, and therefore abounded in skulls. Or (2) it may come from the look or form of the spot itself, bald, round, and skull-like, and therefore a mound or hillock, in accordance with the common phrase- for which there is no direct authority, "Mount Calvary." Whichever of these is the correct explanation, Golgotha seems to have been a known spot.

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