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When they came to the place that is called “The Skull”, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.
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Verse 33. Called Calvary. A place at a small distance from Jerusalem, where condemned malefactors were beheaded. So Christ, as a malefactor, dies on Calvary for the redemption of all: that where sin abounded, grace might more abound. Ven. Bede.—In this mountain, according to the Hebrew doctors, were interred the remains of our protoparent, Adam. Athana.
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