Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John describe Golgotha as where Jesus was crucified. Archaeologists and historians are in dispute over where it is currently located.
Golgotha insights:
Mount Golgotha, the place of the skull, is described several times in the bible; Matthew 27.33, Mark 15.22, Luke 23.33, and John 19.17 as the place where Jesus was crucified.
There is no consensus among biblical scholars and theologians as to the location of Golgotha.
If Golgotha is a small hill, as many biblical scholars believe, such as this one (approximately 25 by 55 meters, 75 by 180 feet), it would have been destroyed over the millennia in Israel. Did God move Golgotha to protect it from its enemies?
This hill/rock is almost precisely shaped like a skull (from God’s point of view) b. Sepulchre (tomb) and ~2-meter rock at its opening. c. A second cave below the sepulcher is large enough to be the birthplace of Jesus. d. Petroglyphs are associated with Man, Christ, and the Holy Spirit on the hill’s top and near where the crosses stood. e. A pictograph by ancient Indians resembling the Stigmata of Christ is within a kilometer of the possible Golgotha.
The many unbelievable features and characteristics of this mount and the adjoining region are consistent with Golgotha. Is this the true Holy Mountain we have all been looking for?
Jesus stated in Matthew 17.20, “Because of the littleness of your faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it shall move, and nothing shall be impossible for you.”
Biblical miracles
Whether you are a believer or not, you have to wonder about the miracles in the Bible: the parting of the Red Sea, manna from heaven, Jonah in the whale’s belly, Daniel being saved in the lions’ den, Jesus turning water into wine, Marah’s waters sweetened, water from the rock in Horeb, and Jesus’ conception, there are many more. Golgotha moving; is this the ‘final’ miracle before Jesus’s return?
At least 17 times in the Bible, God removes or manipulates mountains. Do you believe and have faith that it is possible that the place of Jesus’s crucifixion was removed from Israel? Is this mountain the ‘final’ miracle?
“If Jesus indeed used these mountains as visual teaching aids because of their importance in Jewish thinking, what could the removal of the mountain, especially a ‘holy’ mountain, refer to?” As Terence L. Donaldson (Jesus on the Mountain, 11-12) wrote in his book.
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