19 Pilate also had a sign lettered and put on the cross. The inscription was:

JESUS THE NAZARENE

THE KING OF THE JEWS.

20 Many of the Jews read this sign, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city,(A) and it was written in Hebrew,[a] Latin, and Greek. 21 So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’(B) but that He said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’”

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Footnotes

  1. John 19:20 Or Aramaic

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