John 19:21-23
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21 So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that he said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’”(A) 22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
23 [a]When the soldiers had crucified Jesus,(B) they took his clothes and divided them into four shares, a share for each soldier.(C) They also took his tunic, but the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top down.
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- 19:23–25a While all four gospels describe the soldiers casting lots to divide Jesus’ garments (see note on Mt 27:35), only John quotes the underlying passage from Ps 22:19, and only John sees each line of the poetic parallelism literally carried out in two separate actions (Jn 19:23–24).
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