(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands {ritually}, [thus] holding fast to the traditions of the elders.

And Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" And he answered him [and] said, "You say [so]."

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

So Pilate answered [and] said to them again, "Then what do you want me to do with [the one] whom you call the king of the Jews?"

And they began to greet him, "Hail, king of the Jews!"

And the inscription of the charge against him was written, "The king of the Jews."