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Matthew's Gospel says:
 
And as they were going out, they found a Cyrenean man named Simon, and they forced him to carry his cross. 33 And when they came to a place called Golgotha, which is called “The Place of the Skull,” 34 they gave him vinegar mixed with gall to drink. When he tasted, he did not want to drink. 35 And when they crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots, that what was said by the prophet might be fulfilled: “They divided my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots.” 36 Then they sat guarding him there. 37 And on his head, they put an inscription written: "This is Jesus, the King of the Jews." 38 Then two thieves were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left
 
The Gospel of John says
 
15 And they cried, 'Take it! take him! crucify him!” Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your king?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!" 16 Then he handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away. 17 So he went out, bearing his cross, to the place that is called “the place of the skull” and is called in Hebrew “Golgotha.” 18 Where they crucified him, and they crucified two others with him on this side and on this side, and Jesus in the middle. 25 She was standing by the cross of Jesus, his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary. Klopa's wife, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved (meaning John) standing, he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.” 27 Then he said to the disciple, "Here is your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her to his own.
 
Kalabaka The Church of the Dormition
 
A Greek inscription on the wall of one of the town's oldest churches (Saint John the Baptist) testifies to the existence of an ancient Greek settlement under the name Aiginion.
In the 10th century AD, it was known as Stagoi , a Byzantine fortress and bishopric (the name is still in use for the town by the Greek Orthodox Church). Of its medieval monuments, only the cathedral, the Church of the Dormition, survives. It was a late 11th- or early 12th-century building, built on the remains of an earlier, late antique church. Relics of an ancient Greek temple – probably of God Apollo – have been incorporated in the wall of the town's oldest and most renowned church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
Stagoi is first mentioned in Diatyposis written by the Byzantine Emperor Leo VI the Wise. In 1163 there was a reference to the castle of Stagoi. In 1204 Stagoi fell under the Despotate of Epirus [The Hebrews]. At the end of the 13th century, they fell under the Duchy of Neoptera. In 1334, they were taken over once more by the Despot of Epirus, John II Orsini, and shortly thereafter they came once more under the control of the Byzantine Empire. In 1348.
 
P.C: See the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the place where Jesus was crucified