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 Body, and  nailed  His  Hands  and  His  Feet  to  the  Cross. They crucified Him  with  two  thieves,  one  on  the  right,  the  other  on the  left. Naked and  bleeding  He  hung  upon  the  Cross,  raised aloft between  heaven  and  earth. Pilate wrote  a title  in  Hebrew, Greek, and  Latin, and put  it  on  the Cross. The writing was: “Jesus  of  Nazareth, the  King  of the  Jews”  (Fig.  90).

Many of  the  Jews were dissatisfied ; they came  to  Pilate and said:  “Write  not :  ‘The  King  of  the  Jews’,  but  that  He  said: ‘I am  the  King  of  the  Jews’.”  But  Pilate  answered:  “What  I have written, I have  written.”  And  the  soldiers  cast  lots  for  His garments, even  as  the  prophets  had  foretold.