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Calvary or Golgotha /ˈɡɒlɡəθə/ is the site – according to Christian belief – outside Jerusalem’s early-first-century walls where the crucifixion of Jesus occurred.
Golgotha is the Greek transcription in the New Testament of an Aramaic term that has traditionally been presumed to be Gûlgaltâ (but see below for an alternative). The Bible translates the term to mean place of [the] skull, which in Greek is Κρανίου Τόπος (Kraniou Topos), and in Latin is Calvariae Locus, from which the English word Calvary is derived.
Golgotha is referred to in early writings as a hill resembling a skullcap located very near to a gate into Jerusalem.
Since the 6th century it has been referred to as the location of a mountain, and as a small hill since 333. The Gospels describe it as a place near enough to the city that those coming in and out could read the inscription ‘Jesus of Nazareth – King of the Jews’ . When the King James Version was written, the translators used an anglicised version — Calvary — of…
