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    Golgotha

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    Golgotha, also known as the Place of a Skull, was the site outside Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified (Matthew 27:33; Mrk.15.22; Luke 23:33; Jhn.19.17).

    Where the story of Golgotha happens Where the gazetteer locates Golgotha, framed to them: Golgotha. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Golgotha
    Where the gazetteer locates Golgotha
    verses
    4
    first named
    Matthew 27:33
    last named
    John 19:18
    feature
    hill
    coordinates
    31.78°N · 35.23°E
    hill31.78°N · 35.23°E

    Church of the Holy Sepulchre (OpenBible)

    Scholarship offers 3 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.

    Description

    Golgotha in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Golgotha, which means "Place of a Skull" in Aramaic, was the location outside the walls of Jerusalem where Jesus Christ was crucified. All four Gospels mention Golgotha as the site of the crucifixion (Matthew 27:33; Mrk.15.22; Luke 23:33; Jhn.19.17). The exact reason for the name is not specified in the Bible, but it may refer to the physical appearance of the site, resembling a skull, or it could be associated with a place of execution. The Gospel accounts describe how Jesus, after being sentenced to death by Pontius Pilate, was led to Golgotha, where he was crucified along with two criminals. The location of Golgotha was outside the city walls, as was customary for executions in ancient times. It is also mentioned that the site was near a garden and a tomb, which belonged to Joseph of Arimathea, where Jesus' body was later laid (Jhn.19.41-42). The crucifixion at Golgotha is the central event in the Christian faith, as it represents Jesus' sacrificial death for the sins of humanity, leading to his resurrection and the offer of salvation to all who believe in him.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

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    The pattern

    Where Golgotha is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 4 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSMATTHEW–JOHN4 VERSES39 books and 929 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 4 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSMATTHEW–JOHN4 VERSES39 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Golgotha is named in 4 verses, and the name is written 7 times in them — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 62 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 4, across 4 books. The name is written 7 times in them.

    1. Matthew1 verse

      27:33

    2. Mark1 verse

      15:22

    3. Luke1 verse

      23:33

    4. John1 verse

      19:17

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    Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    ElsewhereTerritory of JudahOne of the most connected entities of this type.ElsewhereJerusalemThe capital of Israel, a holy city for three religionsElsewhereBashanRegion east of the Jordan, known for its fertility.

    Where they appear

    What happened here

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

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