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Monthly Question Page
Q. Is there any spiritual significance to the fact that Golgotha means “a skull”?
A. In three of the four gospels we have the expression “place of a skull.” Matthew and Mark both mention the fact, and we will now quote from John: “And He bearing His cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha” (John 19:17).
The place may have gotten its name from the peculiar configuration of the rock, but I believe there is a deeper significance than just the geographical formation of the spot.
A skull would denote two things. First, it indicates death, and secondly an empty head. It speaks of the height of man’s wisdom and the humiliating end of all man’s power and glory. A skull is an empty, brainless head. Someone has said, “In some living man it may once have held as brilliant and powerful a brain as ever existed; and it has come to this! The Son of God accepted the judgment of death as from man’s hand at a place which set forth symbolically the end of all man’s glory.” Golgotha was the apex of man’s intelligence. There they took the Son of God and nailed Him to a cross. Thankfully, this has been the means by which God has come out in blessing to mankind.
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