Thematic Bible: The second, of treason
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They answered him, "If this man weren't an evildoer, we wouldn't have delivered him up to you."
At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!"
Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, "Are you the King of the Jews?" Jesus said to him, "So you say."
Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"
They set up over his head the accusation against him written, "THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS."
Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered, "So you say."
The superscription of his accusation was written over him, "THE KING OF THE JEWS."
They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king." Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, "So you say."
An inscription was also written over him in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: "THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS."
Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS." Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek. The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, I am King of the Jews.'" read more.
Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."
Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."
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- Accusations, Against Christ
- Assenting
- Caesar
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- Claims
- Crucifixion, Of Christ
- False Accusations, Examples Of
- Friends Failing
- Handing Over Christ
- Indignities Suffered By Christ