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John 19:17
Carrying His own cross, He went out to The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator describes Jesus immediately after Pilate sentences Him to crucifixion, as soldiers lead Him away to the execution site.
The words — βαστάζων (bastazōn) literally means bearing or carrying, and σταυρόν (stauron) denotes the wooden cross itself.
The thread — The motif of carrying a cross appears in Luke 14:27 as a condition for discipleship, while Luke 23:26 notes soldiers forcing Simon of Cyrene to bear the cross, contrasting with Jesus carrying His own. The crucifixion location matches the description in Luke 23:33.
Why it lands — The text states Jesus carried His own cross to the execution site before being nailed between two criminals. It requires the reader to acknowledge that discipleship demands personal burden-bearing rather than passive observation.
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The Greek words
King James Version
And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:
Cross-references
- Luke 23:33 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.
- Luke 14:27 And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.
- Luke 23:26 As the soldiers led Him away, they seized Simon of Cyrene on his way in from the country, and they put the cross on him to carry behind Jesus.
- Mark 15:32 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe!” And even those who were crucified with Him berated Him.
- Acts 7:58 They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
- Hebrews 13:11 Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.
- Leviticus 16:21 Then he is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities and rebellious acts of the Israelites in regard to all their sins. He is to put them on the goat’s head and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man appointed for the task.
- Leviticus 24:14 “Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.
- Numbers 15:35 And the LORD said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death. The whole congregation is to stone him outside the camp.”
- 1 Kings 21:13 And the two scoundrels came in and sat opposite Naboth, and these men testified against him before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed both God and the king!” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.