Charles Spurgeon Commentary Matthew 27:33

"And they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, The place of a skull," — Matthew 27:33 (ASV)

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

We do not know why it was so called. There have been many conjectures concerning the name, but they are only conjectures.

It was probably just a little knoll, outside the gate of the city—the common place of execution for malefactors.

The special points to be noted are that Jesus suffered without the gate, in the regular place of doom—the Tyburn or Old Bailey of Jerusalem—and so was numbered with the transgressors.

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

From its shape. There appears to be, to this day, a hill still in the form of a human skull outside the gate of Jerusalem. When they came to that common place of execution, the Tyburn or Old Bailey of the city.