Matthew 27:32-37
Above Jesus' Head a Sign Was Placed on the Cross
32 As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross. 33 They came to a place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”). 34 There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it. 35 When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots. 36 And sitting down, they kept watch over him there. 37 Above his head they placed the written charge against him: this is jesus, the king of the jews.
John 19:19-22
Above Jesus' Head Pilate Had a Sign Was Placed on the Cross
19 Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: jesus of nazareth, the king of the jews. 20 Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek. 21 The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews.”
22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
Isaiah 53:4
Jesus Bore Our Sins
4 Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.
You sometimes see the word INRI written on the top of Jesus' cross in some pictures or paintings...INRI is the acronym meaning Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum, or "Jesus the Nazarene, the King of the Jews."...The "I" stands for Jesus...There was no "J "in the Hebrew alphabet...So the "I" would have been used at the time...The "N" stands for Nazareth...The "R" stands for King...And the last "I" stands for Jews...Again with no "J" in the alphabet, the "I" is for the word Iudaeorum, which means Jewish or Jew...It is said that there was no "J" in any language until the fourteenth century and that was when the English vocabulary introduced the "J"...
In John's gospel, we remember the INRI phrase by the scripture that Pilate placed on the top of Jesus' cross that says JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS...The phrase "JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS" was written in three languages: Aramaic, Greek, and Latin...In Matthew's Gospel, we are told that the sign read THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS...
In Hebrew our Messiah's name is Yeshua...In Greek our Messiah's name is Lesous...In Latin our Messiah's name is also Lesous...And later in English our Messiah's name is Jesus...
So the Messiah was the One who bore our weaknesses...It was Jesus that took on our sorrows and those weighed Him down on the cross...And we thought, as Isaiah wrote, His troubles on the cross were a punishment from God, a punishment for His own sins!...