Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified.

So the soldiers took charge of Jesus. Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha).

According to tradition, the route Jesus took as He carried the Cross is an uphill route. Jesus arduously walked from the hall of Pilate, up to Calvary, totaling about a third of a mile.

No one really knows the exact route Christ followed. But a bird’s eye view of the story in Scripture tells us where the road actually begins. It didn’t start from the court of Pilate, nor did it start in the garden of Gethsemane, not from the journey into Jerusalem that we celebrate on Palm Sunday. It didn’t even begin in Bethlehem. Jesus’ journey to the Cross began long before; as the echo of the crunching of the fruit was still sounding in the Garden of Eden, Jesus was leaving for Calvary.