LUKE 23:33

 When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified Him there, along with the criminals - one on the right, the other on His left. - Luke 23:33

What is the significance of the "Skull"?  Oh, it looked like a skull - that was probably the Romans trying to be tricky!  

It does seem like there's a huge build up and then Luke just mentions "they crucified Him there."  A bit anticlimactic!  

We had a good discussion in Florida about why Jesus had to be crucified.  My thought was that He really just had to die for our sins.  It had to be Him because He was perfect, but I don't think there was any stipulation that it had to be this brutal of a death.  My math brain figured it like this.  People messed up.  God had to sacrifice His Son to pay for those sins.  So, to have a relationship with us, God needed a perfect offering.  Get it!

But, why did it have to be crucifixion?  Why not heart attack or disease or dying in His sleep?  He just had to die, right?  Or did the pain involved qualify it as a sacrifice?  I've never really thought about it before, but why did God choose to make You die by crucifixion?