Joh 19:14 | HCSB | STEP | It was the preparation day for the Passover , and it was about six in the morning. Then he told the Jews , “Here is your king !”

John 19:14

14 It was the preparation day for the ^{▼▼Passover: The Israelite festival celebrated on the fourteenth day of the first month in the early spring. It was a celebration of the deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt, commemorating the final plague on Egypt when the firstborn were killed.}Passover, and it was about six in the morning. ^{▼▼Lit the sixth hour; see note at Jn 1:39; an alt. time reckoning would be about noon} Then he told the Jews, “Here is your king!”