17 occurrences

'King of the Jews' in the Bible

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."

They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews."

Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?"

They began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews."

Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"

But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

And they kept coming up to him and saying, "Hail, King of the Jews." and they struck him with their hands.

Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS."

The chief priests of the Jewish people therefore said to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, I am King of the Jews.'"