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.…