“Scenes from the passion” devotion for Monday, March 22, 2021. Photo by Matthew Ball on Unsplash.
And they brought him to the place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull). (Mark 15:22)
If I mention the “place of a skull,” might think I’m talking about a Mexican restaurant! There, the decor often includes ornamental “Day of the Dead” skulls. In their culture, that is a day of celebration. Golgotha, however, is a place of death.
Golgotha is a place of crucifixion. Criminals were executed on this hill outside the city of Jerusalem. Some think this hill was a rock formation that actually looked like a skull. Given that most who were crucified were not buried but simply tossed down the hill, there may have been a lot of old skulls lying around, too.
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