This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.
This title then read many of the Jews; for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew - that is, Syro-Chaldaic; the language of the country,
And Greek - the current language,
And Latin - the official language. These were then the chief languages of the earth, and this secured that all spectators should be able to read it. Stung by this, the Jewish ecclesiastics entreat that it may be so altered as to express, not His regal dignity, but His false claim to it.