John 19:21

Then the Jewish high priests told Pilate, "Don't write, "The King of the Jews,' but that this fellow said, "I am the King of the Jews.'"

Now it was the Preparation Day for the Passover, about noon. He told the Jewish leaders, "Here is your king!"

Pilate wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, "Jesus from Nazareth, the King of the Jews."

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Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.

Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" Jesus answered him, "You say so."

There was also an inscription over him written in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: "This is the King of the Jews."