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What was written above Jesus on the cross?
By: Kerry Date: July 4, 2025, 10:23 pm
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What was written above Jesus on the cross?
Matthew 22:37 And set up over his head his accusation written,
This Is Jesus The King Of The Jews.
Mark 15:26 And the superscription of his accusation was written
over, The King Of The Jews.
Luke 23:38 And a superscription also was written over him in
letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, This Is The King Of The
Jews.
John 19:19 And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross.
And the writing was Jesus Of Nazareth The King Of The Jews.
Who was an eyewitness? For my money then, John got it his
"facts" right. I take it that the other authors of the other
three Gospels did the best they could by asking around.
There is another reason I think John had it right. Notice he
tells us Pilate did it. Pilate was annoyed with Jews for
bringing Jesus' case to him, so I think he wrote that to annoy
them back and the way he wrote it probably did annoy them.
Remember they asked him to change it, but Pilate refused.
HTML https://lightontherock.org/index.php/blog/entry/the-sign-over-yeshua-s-cross
In Hebrew, the sign would have read, “Yeshua, Ha’Netzeret
V’melech HaYehudim.”
So what’s so upsetting with that?
To dig deeper and learn more about this fascinating sign, please
be sure to click on “Continue reading”. You won’t be
disappointed!
First let me remind you of this: in the Hebrew alphabet, there
is no J (always pronounced with a Y), and there is no W (so V is
the proper letter). We see Anglicized words like Jerusalem, but
in Hebrew its “Yerushalayim”. And our English “Elijah” in Hebrew
is actually “Eliyah” or “Eliyahu”. You’ll recognize how we
pronounce Hallelujah – with a “Y” sound at the end. That word
“HalleluYah” – means “Let’s all praise Yah” (the shortened form
of YHVH).
This time let’s bold the printing of just the first letter of
each word on the sign in Hebrew, something the Romans could have
also done. And now what do you see?
Yeshua, HaNetzeret, Vemelech HaYehudim. In Hebrew this would
have been written right to left – but in that order.
Y = Yeshua
H = Ha’Netzeret “of Nazareth”
V’melech “The King”
HaYehudim -- “of the Jews”
Now are you seeing what upset the priests?
The key first letter of each word, seen together, spell out
“YHVH”, which is the sacred and official name of the living God!
You’ve probably learned that where you read “the LORD” (with
LORD in all caps), that is the official name of God – YHVH. Some
pronounce it Yehovah, while others think it is “Yahweh”. For
another blog or sermon, but to me the evidence recently points
to “Yehovah”. But no matter, we know the letters were YHVH.
If they could persuade Pilate to say “He SAID he was king of the
Jews” – it would have changed the lettering and the first letter
of each word would not have ended up spelling “YHVH”.
There is a slight problem with that since John doesn't say
"and." "V=melech" really means "and king" not "the king" as the
source above states. I am not 100% convinced of it; but perhaps
John omitted the word "and" when he wrote his Gospel?
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