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The Preparation of the passover (paraskeuē tou pascha). That is, Friday of passover week, the preparation day before the Sabbath of passover week (or feast). See also Joh 19:31, Joh 19:42; Mar 15:42; Mat 27:62; Luk 23:54 for this same use of paraskeuē for Friday. It is the name for Friday today in Greece.
About the sixth hour (hōs hektē). Roman time, about 6 a.m. (a little after 6 no doubt) when Pilate rendered his final decision. Mar 15:25 notes that it was the third hour (Jewish time), which is 9 a.m. Roman time, when the crucifixion began. Why should John give Jewish time writing at the close of the first century when Jerusalem and the Jewish state passed away in a.d. 70? He is writing for Greek and Roman readers.
Behold your king (Ide ho basileus humōn). Ide is here an exclamation with no effect on the case of basileus just as in Joh 1:29. The sarcasm of Pilate is aimed at the Jews, not at Jesus.