Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." There was plenty of grass there, so the men threw themselves down, about five thousand of them.

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

Pilate had written a placard and had it put on the cross; it read "Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews."

Near Jesus' cross stood his mother and her sister Mary, the daughter of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.