“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 — Greek Interlinear
Church Fathers on John 19:17
By the command of the governor, the soldiers took Christ to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led Him away.
They, i.e. the soldiers, the guards of the governor, as appears more clearly afterwards; Then the soldiers when they had crucified Jesus; though the Evangelist might justly have attributed the whole to the Jews, who were really the authors of what they procured to be done.
They compel Jesus to bear the cross, regarding it as unholy, and therefore avoiding the touch of it themselves. And He bearing His cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha, where they crucified Him. The same was done typically by Isaac, who carried the wood. But then the matter only proceeded as far as his father’s good pleasure ordered, but now it was fully accomplished, for the reality had appeared.