John 19:19
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Overview - John 19 | |
1 | Christ is scourged, crowned with thorns, and beaten. |
4 | Pilate is desirous to release him, but being overcome with the outrage of the Jews, he delivers him to be crucified. |
23 | They cast lots for his garments. |
25 | He commends his mother to John. |
28 | He dies. |
31 | His side is pierced. |
38 | He is buried by Joseph and Nicodemus. |
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John 19:19 (King James Version)
And 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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- Matthew 27:37 ; Mark 15:26 ; Luke 23:38
- And the
- The apparent discrepancy between the accounts of this title given by the Evangelists, which has been urged as an objection against their inspiration and veracity, has been most satisfactorily accounted for by Dr. Townson; who supposes that, as it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, it might have slightly varied in each language; and that, as Luke and John wrote for the Gentiles, they would prefer the Greek inscription, that Matthew, addressing the Jews, would use the Hebrew, and that Mark, writing to the Romans, would naturally give the Latin.
- JESUS
- John 19:3 John 19:12 ; John 1:45 John 1:46 John 1:49 18:33 Acts 3:6 ; 26:9