19:22

Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”: Pilate refused to change what he told the soldiers to write on the inscription/notice. Your translation should make it clear that he rejected the request to change the inscription. Here are some other ways to translate this sentence:

Pilate replied, “No, what I have written, I have written.” (New Living Translation (2004))
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Pilate answered, “What I have written stays written.” (Good News Translation)

If you said in 19:19 that Pilate commanded others to write the inscription, you should not say here that he wrote it. For example:

Pilate replied, “What I ordered to be written will remain written!”
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But Pilate told them, “What is written will not be changed!” (Contemporary English Version)

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