{Pilate wrote a title also} (egrapsen kai titlon ho
Peilatos). Only John tells us that Pilate himself wrote it and
John alone uses the technical Latin word _titlon_ (several times
in inscriptions), for the board with the name of the criminal and
the crime in which he is condemned; Mark ( Mr 15:26 ) and Luke
( Lu 23:28 ) use epigraph(885c) (superscription). Matthew ( Mt
27:37 ) has simply aitian (accusation). The inscription in John
is the fullest of the four and has all in any of them save the
words "this is" (houtos estin) in  Mt 27:37 .