Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross. It read, “Jesus the Nazorean, the King of the Jews.”
He went and dwelt in a town called Nazareth, so that what had been spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled, “He shall be called a Nazorean.”
And they placed over his head the written charge against him: This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.
The inscription of the charge against him read, “The King of the Jews.”
They told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.”
Above him there was an inscription that read, “This is the King of the Jews.”
Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.”
So Pilate went back into the praetorium and summoned Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
Consequently, Pilate tried to release him; but the Jews cried out, “If you release him, you are not a Friend of Caesar. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.”
It was preparation day for Passover, and it was about noon. And he said to the Jews, “Behold, your king!”
So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that he said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’”
and they came to him and said, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they struck him repeatedly.
I myself once thought that I had to do many things against the name of Jesus the Nazorean,
Peter said, “I have neither silver nor gold, but what I do have I give you: in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean, [rise and] walk.”