John 19:16-22 (ESV)

A Place and a Sign

16: So he delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus,

17: and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.

18: There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.

A King and His Kingdom

19: Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.”

20: Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek.

A Claim and a Confirmation

21: So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’”

22: Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”