It Is Finished: John 19:17-30

Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha).

Carrying his own cross. The vertical beam awaited at the site; the horizontal crossbar Jesus carried through Jerusalem's streets. The place of the Skull—Golgotha, Calvary. A hill shaped like a skull, or a place of execution where skulls accumulated.

There they crucified him, and with him two others—one on each side and Jesus in the middle.

Three crosses. Two criminals flanking the central figure. Jesus in the middle—the position of prominence, even in death.