Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
Parallel translations
- KJV Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.
- BSB Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
- ESV Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”
- NKJV Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
- NASB Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
- NLT Pilate replied, “No, what I have written, I have written.”
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Cross-references · 6
- Ps 76:10Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
- Prov 8:29when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;
- Ps 65:7who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.
- John 19:12At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!”
- Esth 4:16“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”
- Gen 43:14May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”
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