Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." Now there was plenty of grass at the spot; so the men, about five thousand, threw themselves down.

So Jesus said to them, "When you lift the Son of Man (on the cross), you will know that I am the Christ, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but that I say exactly what my Father has instructed me to say.

and He went out carrying the cross by Himself to a spot called The Place of the Skull, or in Hebrew, Golgotha.

Pilate had a placard written and had it put over the cross: "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS."

Near Jesus' cross were standing His mother and her sister Mary, the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.