When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him and the criminals there, one on his right, the other on his left.
Luke 23: 26-33
image by Roger Marks
Yupi666 at English Wikipedia [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]
The winding way of the cross in old city Jerusalem began at the Antonia Fortress (that later became the site of Pontius Pilate' praetorium--the building was the court where Jesus was tried for blasphemy before being crucified) and ended on the top of the steep hill called Golgatha--a distance of approximately 0.6 kilometer, or 3/8 mile. Via Dolorosa - Wikipedia
attribution: Benjamin and flickr
we live on top of a hill overlooking the town of strasburg va. this photograph was taken just outside our back door:
I imagine that the topography from our backyard looking northwest is similar to the topography from golgotha looking towards Jerusalem. looking directly over the stormwater management pond outfall structure, I visualize the great temple at the top of the ridge about a mile away. I visualize Jerusalem's exterior wall at the bottom of the hill in the valley about a half mile away. the elevation difference between the bottom of the hill and where I was standing when I took this photograph is similar to the elevation difference between golgotha and where Jesus began carrying His cross at Jerusalem's exterior wall (shown in the color illustration above).
crucified Jesus, have mercy on us.
Diego Velázquez [Public domain]
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