Verse 33
And when they came unto the place which is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand and the other on the left.
THE CRUCIFIXION
None of the Gospel writers dwelt upon the horrors of the terrible death; and perhaps their restraint should be a caution to all people. The crucifixion of the Christ had been prophesied the better part of a millenium before it occurred, in Psalms 22, at a point in history when such a means of execution had never been invented. Long ago, such a torturing death was outlawed by the conscience of all mankind, tenuous and imperfect as such a conscience is.
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