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When Pilate heard what they said, he took Jesus outside and sat on the judge's seat in a place called Stone Pavement. (In Hebrew it is called Gabbatha.)
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The time was about six o'clock in the morning on the Friday of the Passover festival. Pilate said to the Jews, "Look, here's your king!"
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Then the Jews shouted, "Kill him! Kill him! Crucify him!" Pilate asked them, "Should I crucify your king?" The chief priests responded, "The emperor is the only king we have!"
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Then Pilate handed Jesus over to them to be crucified. So the soldiers took Jesus.
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He carried his own cross and went out [of the city] to a location called The Skull. (In Hebrew this place is called Golgotha.)
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The soldiers crucified Jesus and two other men there. Jesus was in the middle.
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Pilate wrote a notice and put it on the cross. The notice read, "Jesus from Nazareth, the king of the Jews."
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Many Jews read this notice, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city. The notice was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
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The chief priests of the Jewish people told Pilate, "Don't write, 'The king of the Jews!' Instead, write, 'He said that he is the king of the Jews.'"
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Pilate replied, "I have written what I've written."
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When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them four ways so that each soldier could have a share. His robe was left over. It didn't have a seam because it had been woven in one piece from top to bottom.