Biblical places
Golgotha
The site of Jesus' crucifixion, long disputed between two leading candidate locations.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Disputed
- Jerusalem Old City
- 31.7784, 35.2298
The exact location has not been settled, and both candidate sites are visited as pilgrimage destinations.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Matthew 27:33
And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,
Mark 15:22
And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.
John 19:17
And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: