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Christ’s Journey to Golgotha

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 16, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 43.

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Christ’s Journey to Golgotha

THERE is a change of expression in Mark’s account of the taking of Christ to be crucified, that is worthy of notice. First he says that they “led him out to crucify him.” Chap. 15:20. Then he relates the fact that Simon was compelled to bear the cross. Jesus, exhausted by the agony in the garden, the loss of sleep, and the inhuman treatment which he had received at the hands of the mob and the Roman soldiers, had fallen under the burden. And then, having found a substitute to bear the cross, “they bring him unto the place Golgotha.” This word indicates that Jesus had to be assisted. He was unable to proceed alone.