They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands.
and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” 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. 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.’” Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”
So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
When he had said these things, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus with his hand, saying, “Is that how you answer the high priest?”
And he came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!”
And he came up to Jesus at once and said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” And he kissed him.
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