A place called Golgotha— A Syriac word, which signifies a skull or head. In Latin it is called Calvary: the place was so named, either because malefactors used to be executed there, or because the charnel house, or common repository for bones and skulls, might have been there. See Mark 15:22.
Related Commentaries of Matthew 27:33
Matthew 27:33
33 And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,