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What was the inscription on the cross?
Mark: “The King of the Jews” ([xv, 26]).
Luke: “This is the King of the Jews” ([xxiii, 38]).
Matthew: “This is Jesus the King of the Jews” ([xxvii, 37]).
John: “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews” ([xix, 19]).
There was placed on the cross a certain inscription. According to Luke and John it appeared in Greek, Latin and Hebrew. Four divinely inspired historians attempt to report in Greek the exact words of this inscription. Yet no two of their reports agree.