SEV Biblia, Chapter 19:17
Y llevando el madero para sí, vino al lugar que se dice de la Calavera, y en hebreo, Glgota;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - John 19:17
Verse 17. Bearing his cross] He bore it all alone first; when he could no longer carry the whole through weakness, occasioned by the ill usage he had received, Simon, a Cyrenian, helped him to carry it: see the note on Matt. xxvii. 32. Golgotha] See on Matt. xxvii. 33.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 17. And he bearing his cross , etc.] Which was usual for malefactors to do, as Lipsius shows out of Artemidorus, and Plutarch; the former says, the cross is like to death, and he that is to be fixed to it, first bears it; and the latter says, and everyone of the malefactors that are punished in body, carries out his own cross.
So Christ, when he first went out to be crucified, carried his cross himself, until the Jews, meeting with Simon the Cyrenian, obliged him to bear it after him; that is, one part of it; for still Christ continued to bear a part himself: of this Isaac was a type, in carrying the wood on his shoulders for the burnt offering; and this showed that Christ was made sin, and a curse for us, and that our sins, and the punishment which belonged to us, were laid on him, and bore by him; and in this he has left us an example to go forth without the camp, bearing his reproach: went forth in a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew, Golgotha : and signifies a mans skull: it seems, that as they executed malefactors here, so they buried them here; and in process of time, their bones being dug up to make room for others, their skulls, with other bones, lay up and down in this place; from whence it had its name in the Syriac dialect, which the Jews then usually spake: here some say Adams skull was found, and that it had its name from thence. This was an ancient tradition, as has been observed in the notes on (see Gill on Matthew 27:33), and (see Gill on Luke 23:33) the Syriac writers have it f713 , who say, when Noah went out of the ark there was made a distribution of the bones of Adam; to Shem, his head was given, and the place in which he was buried is called Karkaphta: where likewise Christ was crucified; which word signifies a skull, as Golgotha does: and so likewise the Arabic writers f714 ; who affirm that Shem said these words to Melchizedek, Noah commanded that thou shouldst take the body of Adam, and bury it in the middle of the earth; therefore let us go, I and thou, and bury it; wherefore Shem and Melchizedek went to take the body of Adam, and the angel of the Lord appeared to them and went before them, till they came to the place Calvary, where they buried him, as the angel of the Lord commanded them: the same also had the ancient fathers of the Christian church; Cyprian f715 says, that it is a tradition of the ancients, that Adam was buried in Calvary under the place where the cross of Christ was fixed; and Jerom makes mention of it more than once; so Paula and Eustochium, in an epistle supposed to be dictated by him, or in which he was assisting, say f716 , in this city, meaning Jerusalem, yea in this place, Adam is said to dwell, and to die; from whence the place where our Lord was crucified is called Calvary, because there the skull of the ancient man was buried: and in another place he himself says f717 , that he heard one disputing in the church and explaining, ( Ephesians 5:14) of Adam buried in Calvary, where the Lord was crucified, and therefore was so called. Ambrose also takes notice of it; the place of the cross, says he, is either in the midst of the land, that it might be conspicuous to all, or over the grave of Adam, as the Hebrews dispute: others say that the hill itself was in the form of a mans skull, and therefore was so called; it was situated, as Jerom says f719 , on the north of Mount Zion, and is thought by some to be the same with the hill Gareb, in ( Jeremiah 31:39). It was usual to crucify on high hills, so Polycrates was crucified upon the highest top of Mount Mycale f720 .
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-18 - Little did Pilate think with what holy regard these sufferings of Christ would, in after-ages, be thought upon and spoken of by the bes and greatest of men. Our Lord Jesus came forth, willing to be expose to their scorn. It is good for every one with faith, to behold Chris Jesus in his sufferings. Behold him, and love him; be still lookin unto Jesus. Did their hatred sharpen their endeavours against him? an shall not our love for him quicken our endeavours for him and his kingdom? Pilate seems to have thought that Jesus might be some perso above the common order. Even natural conscience makes men afraid of being found fighting against God. As our Lord suffered for the sin both of Jews and Gentiles, it was a special part of the counsel of Divine Wisdom, that the Jews should first purpose his death, and the Gentiles carry that purpose into effect. Had not Christ been thu rejected of men, we had been for ever rejected of God. Now was the So of man delivered into the hands of wicked and unreasonable men. He wa led forth for us, that we might escape. He was nailed to the cross, a a Sacrifice bound to the altar. The Scripture was fulfilled; he did no die at the altar among the sacrifices, but among criminals sacrifice to public justice. And now let us pause, and with faith look upo Jesus. Was ever sorrow like unto his sorrow? See him bleeding, see his dying, see him and love him! love him, and live to him!
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 CONJ βασταζων 941 5723 V-PAP-NSM τον 3588 T-ASM σταυρον 4716 N-ASM αυτου 846 P-GSM εξηλθεν 1831 5627 V-2AAI-3S εις 1519 PREP τον 3588 T-ASM λεγομενον 3004 5746 V-PPP-ASM κρανιου 2898 N-GSN τοπον 5117 N-ASM ος 3739 R-NSM λεγεται 3004 5743 V-PPI-3S εβραιστι 1447 ADV γολγοθα 1115 N-ASF
Vincent's NT Word Studies
17. Bearing (bastazwn). See on xii. 6; x. 31.His cross (ton stauron autou). The best texts read auJtw or eJautw, "bearing the cross for Himself." John does not mention the impressment of Simon of Cyrene for this service. Compare Matt. xxvii. 32; Mark xv. 21; Luke xxiii. 26.
Skull. See on Matt. xxvii. 33.
18-24. Compare Matt. xxvii. 35-38; Mark xv. 24-28; Luke xxiii. 33, 34, 38.
