According to the Bible, where was Jesus crucified?

According to the Bible, Jesus was crucified at Golgotha. The name appears in the New Testament accounts of the crucifixion and is explained as meaning “place of the skull.” The Gospel of John gives both the Hebrew-Aramaic name Golgotha and the description “place of a skull.”

The Latin translation of this expression is Calvaria, which produced the English name Calvary. As a result, Golgotha and Calvary are not competing answers: they are two traditional names for the same crucifixion site. The four canonical Gospels place it outside or near Jerusalem, consistent with Roman executions often being public and visible.

The exact physical location remains uncertain. Christian tradition associates Golgotha with the site now enclosed by Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Other traditions have proposed the area known as Gordon’s Calvary near the Garden Tomb. The Bible identifies the place but does not provide enough detail to settle the modern archaeological debate. For a standard Bible-trivia question, however, Golgotha is the canonical answer.