John 19:22

George Lamsa Translation

Pilate said, What I have written, I have written.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Pilate replied, “What I have written, I have written.”

King James Version (1611)
Pilate answered, What I haue written, I haue written.

King James Version
Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.

English Standard Version
Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."

New American Standard Bible
Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."

New Century Version
Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."

Amplified Bible
Pilate replied, "What I have written I have written [and it remains written]."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."

Legacy Standard Bible
Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."

Berean Standard Bible
Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."

Contemporary English Version
But Pilate told them, "What is written will not be changed!"

Complete Jewish Bible
Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."

Darby Translation
Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written.

Easy-to-Read Version
Pilate answered, "I will not change what I have written."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Pilate answered, What I haue written, I haue written.

Good News Translation
Pilate answered, "What I have written stays written."

Lexham English Bible
Pilate replied, "What I have written, I have written."

Literal Translation
Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written.

American Standard Version
Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.

Bible in Basic English
But Pilate made answer, What I have put in writing will not be changed.

Hebrew Names Version
Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."

International Standard Version
Pilate replied, "What I have written I have written."

Etheridge Translation
Pilatos saith, That which I have written, I have written.

Murdock Translation
Pilate said: What I have written, I have written.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Pilate aunswered: What I haue written, that haue I written.

English Revised Version
Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.

World English Bible
Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written.

Weymouth's New Testament
"What I have written I have written," was Pilate's answer.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Pilat answeride, That that Y haue writun, Y haue writun.

Update Bible Version
Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.

Webster's Bible Translation
Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written.

New English Translation
Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."

New King James Version
Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."

New Living Translation
Pilate replied, "No, what I have written, I have written."

New Life Bible
Pilate said, "What I have written is to stay just as it is!"

New Revised Standard
Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Pilate answered - What I have written, I have written!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Pilate answered: What I have written, I have written.

Revised Standard Version
Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Pylate answered: what I have written that have I written.

Young's Literal Translation
Pilate answered, `What I have written, I have written.'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Pilate answered: What I haue wrytten, that haue I wrytten.

Mace New Testament (1729)
Pilate answered, what I have writ, I have writ.

THE MESSAGE
Pilate said, "What I've written, I've written."

Simplified Cowboy Version
But Pilate replied, "What's written is written."

Contextual Overview

¹⁹ Pilate also wrote on a stone tablet, and placed it on his cross. And the writing was, THIS IS JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS. ²⁰ And a great many Jews read this tablet, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew* and in Greek and in Roman. ²¹ The high priests then said to Pilate, Do not write that he is the king of the Jews; but that he said, I am the king of the Jews. ²² Pilate said, What I have written, I have written. ²³ Now when the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, a part to each of the soldiers; but his robe was without seam, woven from the top throughout. ²⁴ So they said one to another, Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose lot it shall be. And the scripture was fulfilled, which said, They divided my clothes among them, and for my robe they cast lots. These things the soldiers did. ²⁵ Now there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother''s sister, and Mary of Cleopas, and Mary of Magdala. ²⁶ When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing, he said to his mother, Woman, behold your son! ²⁷ Then he said to the disciple, Behold your mother! And from that very hour the disciple took her with him. ²⁸ After these things Jesus knew that everything was now accomplished; and that the scripture might be fulfilled, he said, I thirst.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

What: John 19:12, Psalms 65:7, Psalms 76:10, Proverbs 8:29

Reciprocal: John 18:38 - I find

Cross-References

Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the land of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of God, like the land of Egypt at the entrance of Zoan.

Genesis 14:2
That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemer king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, that is, Zoar.

Genesis 19:1
AND there came two angels to Sodom in the evening; and Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom; and Lot saw them and rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

Genesis 19:10
But the men put forth their hands and pulled Lot into the house to them and locked the door.

Genesis 19:25
And he overthrew those cities and all the plain and all the inhabitants of the region and that which grew on the ground.

Genesis 19:28
And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the region of the plain, and beheld, 1o, the smoke of the country went up like the smoke of a furnace.

Exodus 32:10
Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them and that I may destroy them; and I will make of you a great nation.

Deuteronomy 9:14
Now let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.

Isaiah 15:5
My heart shall cry out for Moab; they shall howl as they flee to Zoar; Moab was strong like a three year old heifer; for by the ascent of Luhith they shall go up with weeping; and in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.

Isaiah 65:8
Thus says the LORD: As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says to another, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it; so will I do for my servants sake, and I will not destroy them all.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Pilate answered, what I have written I have written,.... He seems to say this, as one angry and displeased with them; either because they would not consent to release Jesus, which he was desirous of, but pressed him so very hard to crucify him; or at their insolence, in directing him in what form to put the superscription, which he determines shall stand unaltered, as he had wrote it. This he said, either because he could not alter it after it was written, for it is said w, that

"a proconsul's table is his sentence, which being once read, not one letter can either be increased or diminished; but as it is recited, so it is related in the instrument of the province;''

or if he could have altered it, he was not suffered by God to do it; but was so directed, and over ruled by divine providence, as to write, so to persist in, and abide by what he had wrote inviolably; which is the sense of his words. Dr. Lightfoot has given several instances out of the Talmud, showing that this is a common way of speaking with the Rabbins; and that words thus doubled signify that what is spoken of stands good, and is irrevocable: so a widow taking any of the moveable goods of her husband deceased for her maintenance, it is said x, מה שתפסה תפסה, "what she takes, she takes"; that is, she may lawfully do it, and retain it: it continues in her hands, and cannot be taken away from her; and so the gloss explains it, "they do not take it from her"; and in the same way Maimonides y interprets it: so of a man that binds himself to offer an oblation one way, and he offers it another way, שהביא הביא

מה, "what he has offered, he has offered z"; what he has offered is right, it stands good, and is not to be rejected: and again, among the rites used by a deceased brother's wife, towards him that refuses to marry her, if one thing is done before the other, it matters not, מה שעשוי עשוי, "what is done, is done a"; and is not to be undone, or done over again in another way; it stands firm and good, and not to be objected to: and the same writer observes, that this is a sort of prophecy of Pilate, and which should continue, and for ever obtain, that the Jews should have no other King Messiah than Jesus of Nazareth; nor have they had any other; all that have risen up have proved false Messiahs; nor will they have any other; nor indeed any king, until they seek the Lord their God, and David their king, Hosea 3:5 that is, the son of David, as they will do in the latter day; when they shall be converted, and when they shall own him as their king, their ancestors at this time were ashamed of.

w Apulei Florid. c. 9. x T. Bab. Cetubot, fol. 96. 1. y Hilchot Ishot, c. 18. sect. 10. z T. Bab. Menachot, fol. 3. 1. a T. Bab. Yebamot, fol. 106. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 27:32-37.

John 19:22

What I have written ... - This declaration implied that he would make no change. He was impatient, and weary of their solicitations. He had yielded to them contrary to the convictions of his own conscience, and he now declared his purpose to yield no further.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 22. What I have written, I have written. — That is, I will not alter what I have written. The Roman laws forbad the sentence to be altered when once pronounced; and as this inscription was considered as the sentence pronounced against our Lord, therefore, it could not be changed: but this form of speech is common in the Jewish writings, and means simply, what is done shall continue. Pilate seems to speak prophetically. This is the king of the Jews: they shall have no other Messiah for ever.