“and set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
Matthew 27:37 KJV
Above Jesus’s head they placed a sign that read, “This is Jesus of Nazareth, King of Israel.” The sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek. Aramaic was the language of the common people in Israel as Hebrew had ceased to be their spoken language after 450 BC when the Jews returned from Babylon. Latin was the official language of the Roman Empire. The inscription was also in Greek, for the Alexandrian Jews who had come to observe the Passover in Jerusalem and were unable to read Aramaic. The words were “Jesus, the Nazarene, King of the Jews”. The first letters of each of the four words written on the sign were Y-H-W-H _Y’shua Hanozri Wumelech a Yehudim. _This was YHWH, the Tetragrammaton, the Hebrew form of writing the sacred Name “Yahweh”. No wonder the chief priests were so offended by this sign and insisted that Pilate changed it. This was a sign given to Israel, for over Jesus’s Head on the Cross was written “Y-H-W-H God, the Saviour, bled to death for you.” Amen!
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