19Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read:| JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. 20Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek.
I find it interesting that a sign intended to be a mockery actually declared the truth to the hundreds of thousands (maybe more than a million) of people in Jerusalem for the Passover. Aramaic (possibly Hebrew) was the language of the native Jewish people, Greek was the common language spoken throughout The Roman Empire, and Latin was the official language of the Roman military. The truth was proclaimed in an understandable way for all to see even if it was understood at the time by only a few.
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