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It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about six o'clock in the morning. Then he said to the Jews, "There is your king!"
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This caused a storm of outcries, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" "Am I to crucify your king?" Pilate asked. "We have no king, except Caesar," answered the High Priests.
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Then Pilate gave Him up to them to be crucified. Accordingly they took Jesus;
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and He went out carrying His own cross, to the place called Skull-place--or, in Hebrew, Golgotha--
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where they nailed Him to a cross, and two others at the same time, one on each side and Jesus in the middle.
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And Pilate wrote a notice and had it fastened to the top of the cross. It ran thus: JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
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Many of the Jews read this notice, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the notice was in three languages--Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
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This led the Jewish High Priests to remonstrate with Pilate. "You should not write `The King of the Jews,'" they said, "but that he claimed to be King of the Jews."
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"What I have written I have written," was Pilate's answer.
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So the soldiers, as soon as they had crucified Jesus, took His garments, including His tunic, and divided them into four parts--one part for each soldier. The tunic was without seam, woven from the top in one piece.
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So they said to one another, "Do not let us tear it. Let us draw lots for it." This happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says, "They shared my garments among them, and drew lots for my clothing." That was just what the soldiers did.