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Upon this Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, "If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend; every one who makes himself a king sets himself against Caesar."
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When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Pavement, and in Hebrew, Gab'batha.
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Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold your King!"
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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 handed him over to them to be crucified.
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So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called the place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew Gol'gotha.
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There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.
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Pilate also wrote a title and put it on the cross; it read, "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews."
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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.
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The chief priests of the Jews then said to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'This man said, I am King of the Jews.'"
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Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."