Golgotha — Aramaic for the place of a skull, rendered Calvary from the Latin — was the site outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus was crucified between two thieves. It was a place of public execution, deliberately shameful and visible. There the sky went dark at noon, the temple veil was torn, and Jesus cried, It is finished.
For all its horror, Golgotha is the centre of the Christian faith and the object of its deepest gratitude. On that hill the sinless one bore the sin of the world, and the greatest evil ever done became the means of the greatest good. Christians have never been able to look at the cross on Golgotha as mere tragedy — it is, as Paul wrote, the power of God unto salvation.
Golgotha (Calvary) in Scripture
And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: