INRI

• INRI is the acronym for ‘Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum’ which means in Latin ‘Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews’.

Description

• Pontius Pilate, Prefect of Judaea, had this written on a sign and put on the cross that Jesus was to be crucified on.
• In Western Christianity many crucifixes and figures of Christ on the Cross display the letters INRI, either on the cross or above his head.