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And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Note 2 at Lk. 23:38: All four gospel writers record the inscription that was placed above the head of Jesus on the cross, but they differ slightly in the wording of that inscription. There are a number of possible explanations of this.
Matthew and Mark call this writing an accusation while John calls it a title. This could have been two different things with an individual writer mentioning only one of the two.
Also, as Luke mentions, this inscription was written in three languages. The three languages could vary in their wording, accounting for these differences. The complete inscription, from compiling all four accounts would be, "THIS IS JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS."
