Verse 21
John 19:21
Geneva Bible
21
Then saide the hie Priests of the Iewes to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Iewes, but that he sayd, I am King of the Iewes.
Original Language Text
greek
ἔλεγον οὖν τῷ Πιλάτῳ οἱ ἀρχιερεῖς τῶν Ἰουδαίων· Μὴ γράφε· Ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν Ἰουδαίων, ἀλλ’ ὅτι ἐκεῖνος εἶπεν Βασιλεὺς ⸂τῶν Ἰουδαίων εἰμί⸃.
English Translation
Therefore, the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate: "Do not write, 'The king of the Jews,' but that he said, 'I am king of the Jews.'"
AI translation from greek via gpt-4o-mini
Done.
Sign in to save notes and annotations.
Chapter 19 Context
1
Then Pilate tooke Iesus and scourged him.
Focus ↗
2
And the souldiers platted a crowne of thornes, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple...
Focus ↗
3
And saide, Haile, King of the Iewes. And they smote him with their roddes.
Focus ↗
4
Then Pilate went foorth againe, and said vnto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may kn...
Focus ↗
5
Then came Iesus foorth wearing a crowne of thornes, and a purple garment. And Pilate said vnto them,...
Focus ↗
6
Then when the hie Priests and officers sawe him, they cried, saying, Crucifie, crucifie him. Pilate...
Focus ↗
7
The Iewes answered him, We haue a lawe, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himselfe the...
Focus ↗
8
When Pilate then heard that woorde, he was the more afraide,
Focus ↗
9
And went againe into the common hall, and saide vnto Iesus, Whence art thou? But Iesus gaue him none...
Focus ↗
10
Then saide Pilate vnto him, Speakest thou not vnto me? Knowest thou not that I haue power to crucifi...
Focus ↗
11
Iesus answered, Thou couldest haue no power at all against me, except it were giuen thee from aboue:...
Focus ↗
12
From thence foorth Pilate sought to loose him, but the Iewes cried, saying, If thou deliuer him, tho...
Focus ↗
13
When Pilate heard this woorde, hee brought Iesus foorth, and sate downe in the iudgement seate in a...
Focus ↗
14
And it was the Preparation of the Passeouer, and about the sixt houre: and hee sayde vnto the Iewes,...
Focus ↗
15
But they cried, Away with him, away with him, crucifie him. Pilate sayde vnto them, Shall I crucifie...
Focus ↗
16
Then deliuered he him vnto them, to be crucified. And they tooke Iesus, and led him away.
Focus ↗
17
And he bare his owne crosse, and came into a place named of dead mens Skulles, which is called in He...
Focus ↗
18
Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Iesus in the middes.
Focus ↗
19
And Pilate wrote also a title, and put it on the crosse, and it was written, Yashua (Jesus) OF NAZAR...
Focus ↗
20
This title then read many of the Iewes: for the place where Iesus was crucified, was neere to the ci...
Focus ↗
21
Then saide the hie Priests of the Iewes to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Iewes, but that he say...
22
Pilate answered, What I haue written, I haue written.
Focus ↗
23
Then the souldiers, when they had crucified Iesus, tooke his garments (and made foure partes, to eue...
Focus ↗
24
Therefore they sayde one to another, Let vs not deuide it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be....
Focus ↗
25
Then stoode by the crosse of Iesus his mother, and his mothers sister, Marie the wife of Cleopas, an...
Focus ↗
26
And when Iesus sawe his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loued, he said vnto his mother...
Focus ↗
27
Then saide he to the disciple, Beholde thy mother: and from that houre, the disciple tooke her home...
Focus ↗
28
After, when Iesus knew that all things were performed, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, he sai...
Focus ↗
29
And there was set a vessell full of vineger: and they filled a spondge with vineger: and put it abou...
Focus ↗
30
Nowe when Iesus had receiued of the vineger, he saide, It is finished, and bowed his head, and gaue...
Focus ↗
31
The Iewes then (because it was the Preparation, that the bodies should not remaine vpon the crosse o...
Focus ↗
32
Then came the souldiers and brake the legges of the first, and of the other, which was crucified wit...
Focus ↗
33
But when they came to Iesus, and saw that he was dead alreadie, they brake not his legges.
Focus ↗
34
But one of the souldiers with a speare pearced his side, and foorthwith came there out blood and wat...
Focus ↗
35
And he that sawe it, bare recorde, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that y...
Focus ↗
36
For these things were done, that the Scripture shoulde be fulfilled, Not a bone of him shalbe broken...
Focus ↗
37
And againe an other Scripture saith, They shall see him whom they haue thrust through.
Focus ↗
38
And after these things, Ioseph of Arimathea (who was a disciple of Iesus, but secretly for feare of...
Focus ↗
39
And there came also Nicodemus (which first came to Iesus by night) and brought of myrrhe and aloes m...
Focus ↗
40
Then tooke they the body of Iesus, and wrapped it in linnen clothes with the odours, as the maner of...
Focus ↗
41
And in that place where Iesus was crucified, was a garden, and in the garden a newe sepulchre, where...
Focus ↗
42
There then laide they Iesus, because of the Iewes Preparation day, for the sepulchre was neere.
Focus ↗