Calvary

Calvary
And when they came to the place called Calvary, there they crucified Him, and the criminals, one on the right hand and the other on the left. Luke 23:33
The name occurs only once in the A.V., in Luke 23:33. The word calvaria comes from the Latin translation of the Bible, the Vulgate. The original word in Aramaic is gulgolta, the Golgotha of Matthew 27:33, which means ‘skull’. Three possible reasons for such a name have been propounded: because skulls were found there; because it was a place of execution; or because the site resembled a skull. No one is sure of the exact place where our Lord was crucified but we do know from Scripture that Jesus died in a place once called the ‘Place of skull’ outside the city walls of Jerusalem.