Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!glenn From: glenn@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Glenn C. Scott) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian Subject: Re: Why Jesus' genealogy is important Message-ID: <2217@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 14:58:10 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.2217 Posted: Thu Aug 1 14:58:10 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Aug-85 09:47:43 EDT References: <1278@uwmacc.UUCP> <615@cybvax0.UUCP> <1293@uwmacc.UUCP> <940@umcp-cs.UUCP> <951@ihlpg.UUCP> <295@mit-athena.UUCP> Reply-To: glenn@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Glenn C. Scott) Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica Lines: 15 > <295@mit-athena.UUCP> martillo@mit-athena.UUCP (Yakim Martillo) > If establishing Jesus' claim to the throne of David was important, > and if this claim was so important, why did Pilate, have rex > iudaeorum (Herod the Great's title in Latin) rather than rex israelis > (David's title in Latin) inscribed on the cross of execution (I may > have misunderstood the account and the actual inscription may have > been in Greek but the actual language is not important)? Where do you find that Pilate had Herod the Great's title inscribed on the cross ? According to John 19:19-20 the inscription said: "JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS" and is was written in Hebrew, Latin and Greek. Glenn