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John 19:22
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Pilate replied, “What I have written, I have written.”
Pilate answered, What I haue written, I haue written.
Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.
Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."
Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."
Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."
Pilate replied, "What I have written I have written [and it remains written]."
Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."
Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."
Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."
But Pilate told them, "What is written will not be changed!"
Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."
Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written.
Pilate answered, "I will not change what I have written."
Pilate answered, What I haue written, I haue written.
Pilate said, What I have written, I have written.
Pilate answered, "What I have written stays written."
Pilate replied, "What I have written, I have written."
Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written.
Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.
But Pilate made answer, What I have put in writing will not be changed.
Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."
Pilate replied, "What I have written I have written."
Pilatos saith, That which I have written, I have written.
Pilate said: What I have written, I have written.
Pilate aunswered: What I haue written, that haue I written.
Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.
Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."
Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written.
"What I have written I have written," was Pilate's answer.
Pilat answeride, That that Y haue writun, Y haue writun.
Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.
Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written.
Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."
Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."
Pilate replied, "No, what I have written, I have written."
Pilate said, "What I have written is to stay just as it is!"
Pilate answered - What I have written, I have written!
Pilate answered: What I have written, I have written.
Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."
Pylate answered: what I have written that have I written.
Pilate answered, `What I have written, I have written.'
Pilate answered: What I haue wrytten, that haue I wrytten.
Pilate answered, what I have writ, I have writ.
Pilate said, "What I've written, I've written."
But Pilate replied, "What's written is written."
Contextual Overview
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
Lot looked about him, and saw that the plain of the Jordan was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord , like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar; this was before the Lord had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
these kings made war with King Bera of Sodom, King Birsha of Gomorrah, King Shinab of Admah, King Shemeber of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and bowed down with his face to the ground.
But the men inside reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.
and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the Plain and saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of a furnace.
Now let me alone, so that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; and of you I will make a great nation."
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 more numerous than they."
My heart cries out for Moab; his fugitives flee to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction;
Thus says the Lord : As the wine is found in the cluster, and they say, "Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it," so I will do for my servants' sake, and 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.
