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Jesus carried His own cross. This would probably be the cross member, and was quite a common practice. When Jesus said we had to be prepared to carry our own cross He was referring to being prepared to be condemned by the world.Mark 15:21 tells us that along the way Simon of Cyrene had to take the cross, Jesus having been so weakened by the flogging. Calvary is the Latin word for Golgotha, the place of the skull.
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So Jesus was crucified there. When we talk about the cross we tend to dwell upon the physical pain involved, yet in the New Testament there is very little on this aspect of things. Perhaps because they were familiar with what crucifixion meant the horrors of the means of death didn’t need to be elaborated on, but also perhaps because it wasn’t actually the worst part about it, nor the even the most significant part.
He was crucified along with two others, one on each side. The Son of God, the only truly righteous man to have ever walked this planet was numbered with sinners.
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