⁹ “Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?”^(A) asked Pilate,

¹² “What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the Jews?” Pilate asked them.

¹⁸ And they began to call out to him, “Hail, king of the Jews!”^(A)

²⁶ The written notice of the charge against him read: the king of the jews.^(A)

² and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?^(A) We saw his star^(B) when it rose and have come to worship him.”

³⁹ But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release ‘the king of the Jews’?”

³ and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!”^(A) And they slapped him in the face.^(B)

³² Let this Messiah,^(A) this king of Israel,^(B) come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe.” Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him.