¹⁸ And they began to salute him, ^(A)“Hail, King of the Jews!”

^42 (A)“He saved others; ^(B)he cannot save himself. ^(C)He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. ^43 (D)He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he desires him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”

¹⁴ Now it was ^(A)the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour.^[a] He said to the Jews, ^(B)“Behold your King!” ¹⁵ They cried out, ^(C)“Away with him, away with him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.”

³⁶ The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and ^(A)offering him sour wine ³⁷ and saying, ^(B)“If you are ^(C)the King of the Jews, save yourself!”

²⁹ And ^(A)those who passed by derided him, ^(B)wagging their heads and saying, ^(C)“Aha! ^(D)You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, ³⁰ save yourself, and come down from the cross!” ³¹ So also the chief priests with the scribes mocked him to one another, saying, ^(E)“He saved others; ^(F)he cannot save himself. ³² Let ^(G)the Christ, ^(H)the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may ^(I)see and believe.” ^(J)Those who were crucified with him also reviled him.

^2 (A)And Pilate asked him, ^(B)“Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered him, ^(C)“You have said so.”

²⁰ Come now, ^(A)let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits.^[a] Then we will say that a fierce animal has devoured him, and we will see what will become of his dreams.”

¹⁰ But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and ^(A)your mother and your brothers indeed come ^(B)to bow ourselves to the ground before you?”