JOHN—NOTE ON John 19:17 Jesus set out carrying his own cross until he collapsed on the way. Simon of Cyrene was then forced to carry the cross (see Matthew 27:32 and parallels). He went out is in keeping with the Jewish requirement that executions take place outside the camp or city (see Leviticus 24:14; Numbers 15:35). Place of a Skull. It may have had this name because it was a place of execution, because the area had a number of tombs, or possibly because the site in some way resembled a skull (see Mark 15:22).

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