^{15 Ref} They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!"

^{16 Ref} So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.

^{17 Ref} He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called "The Place of a Skull," which is called in Hebrew, "Golgotha,"

^{18 Ref} where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle.

^{19 Ref} Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS."

^{20 Ref} Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.

^{21 Ref} The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, I am King of the Jews.'"

^{22 Ref} Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."