Pilate answered, 'What I have written I have written.' — Pilate's terse, definitive response (ho gegrāpha, gegrāpha, what I have written, I have written) refuses revision. The doubled aorist suggests finality and authority: the inscription stands. Some scholars see here Pilate's tacit assertion of Jesus' actual kingship, a final ironic gesture. Others read it as the governor's mere bureaucratic stubbornness. Either way, the inscription remains, proclaiming truth.

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