Matthew 27:33

When they came to a place called “ Golgotha ,” that means, “[The place of a skull],”

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In The King James Version

And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,

In Context

32As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simeon [Hearing] by name, and they compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his execution-stake.

34+ 27:34. MP: Messiah has gall offered him as food. Gall is a medicinal poison; poisons have a bitter taste and acids, like vinegar, have a sour taste. This mixture has various English simile terms: poisoned water, mixed drink with serpent poison, drinking viper’s poison (Deut 32:32-33; Jer 9:15, 23:15). Gall is a mixture of liver or gallbladder digestive juice, called bile, possibly mixed with poppy seed opium or wormwood. Gall would be offered to a person as an end to pain, cure illness, or overdosing to kill. Ingesting opium, wormwood, or bile is like taking very bitter medicine. Therefore descriptions of eating and drinking the substances are metaphors for very bitter experiences. (See also Ps 22:15). (Ps 69:21a, 69:21b) they gave him sour wine to drink mixed with gall. When he had tasted it, he would not drink.

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Cross References

Mark 15:34At three, + 15:34. MP: Messiah is forsaken by God. (See also Is 53:4). (Consider “sent out and divorced” in Gen 3:23-24). (Ps 22:1b) Yeshua [Salvation] cried with a loud voice, saying, “ Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” + 15:34. Quoted from Ps 22:1

Luke 23:44It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three o'clock in the afternoon.

John 19:23+ 19:23 (23-24) MP: The Messiah’s garments are divided; lots are divided; lots are cast for his clothes. (Ps 22:18) Then the soldiers, when they had nailed Yeshua [Salvation] to the stake, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 27:27-33

Christ Scourged and Derided; Christ Mocked by the Soldiers. 26 Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified. 27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. 28 And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. 29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King… Read the whole commentary →

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