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From then on Pilate sought to release Him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you let this Man go, you are not Caesar's friend. Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar."
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When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus out and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
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Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, "Behold your King!"
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But they cried out, "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!"
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Then he delivered Him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led Him away.
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And He, bearing His cross, went out to a place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha,
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where they crucified Him, and two others with Him, one on either side, and Jesus in the center.
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Now Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross. And the writing was: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
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Then many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.
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Therefore the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'He said, "I am the King of the Jews." ' "
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Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."