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John 19:17-19
New Catholic Bible
John 19:17-19
New Catholic Bible
17 and, carrying the cross[a] by himself, he went out to what is called the Place of the Skull (in Hebrew, “Golgotha”). 18 There they crucified him[b] along with two others, one on either side, with Jesus in the middle.
19 Pilate also had an inscription written and fastened to the cross. It read, “Jesus the Nazorean, King of the Jews.”[c]
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- John 19:17 Carrying the cross: see note on Mk 15:21.
- John 19:18 Crucified him: see note on Mt 27:35.
- John 19:19 The inscription is found in all four Gospels under a slightly different form. John gives the most complete form, corresponding to the Latin of the three forms: INRI = IESU NAZARENUS REX IUDAEORUM (“Jesus the Nazorean, King of the Jews”). See also note on Jn 18:5.
