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They shouted back, "Kill him! Kill him! Crucify him!" Pilate said, "I am to crucify your king?" The high priests answered, "We have no king except Caesar."
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Pilate caved in to their demand. He turned him over to be crucified.
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Carrying his cross, Jesus went out to the place called Skull Hill (the name in Hebrew is Golgotha),
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where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on each side, Jesus in the middle.
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Pilate wrote a sign and had it placed on the cross. It read: jesus the nazarene the king of the jews.
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Many of the Jews read the sign because the place where Jesus was crucified was right next to the city. It was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
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The Jewish high priests objected. "Don't write," they said to Pilate, "'The King of the Jews.' Make it, 'This man said, "I am the King of the Jews."'"
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Pilate said, "What I've written, I've written."
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When they crucified him, the Roman soldiers took his clothes and divided them up four ways, to each soldier a fourth. But his robe was seamless, a single piece of weaving,
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so they said to each other, "Let's not tear it up. Let's throw dice to see who gets it." This confirmed the Scripture that said, "They divided up my clothes among them and threw dice for my coat." (The soldiers validated the Scriptures!)
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Jesus' mother, his aunt, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene stood at the foot of the cross.