Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
And washed
General references
Bible References
And washed
Deuteronomy 21:6
All the elders of that city nearest to the dead man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;
Job 9:30
“If I were to wash myself with snow
And cleanse my hands with lye,
“If I were to wash myself with snow
And cleanse my hands with lye,
Psalm 26:6
I will wash my hands in innocence,
And I will go about Your altar, O Lord,
I will wash my hands in innocence,
And I will go about Your altar, O Lord,
Jeremiah 2:27
Who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
And to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have turned their backs to Me,
And not their faces;
But in the time of their trouble they will say,
‘Arise [O Lord] and save us.’
Who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
And to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have turned their backs to Me,
And not their faces;
But in the time of their trouble they will say,
‘Arise [O Lord] and save us.’
Just
Matthew 27:4
saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They replied, “What is that to us? See to that yourself!”
John 19:4
Then Pilate came out again and said to them, “Look, I am bringing Him out to you so that you may know that I find no guilt in Him [no crime, no cause for an accusation].”
Acts 3:14
But you disowned and denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for [the pardon of] a murderer to be granted to you.
2 Corinthians 5:21
He made Christ who knew no sin to [judicially] be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we would become the righteousness of God [that is, we would be made acceptable to Him and placed in a right relationship with Him by His gracious lovingkindness].
1 Peter 3:18
For indeed Christ died for sins once for all, the Just and Righteous for the unjust and unrighteous [the Innocent for the guilty] so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit;
General references
Leviticus 22:19
so that you may be accepted—it must be a male without blemish from the cattle, the sheep, or the goats.
Jeremiah 26:16
Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the [false] prophets, “This man is not deserving of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.”
Mark 6:26
The king was deeply grieved, but because of his oaths and his dinner guests [who might have regarded him as weak], he was unwilling to [break his word and] refuse her.
Luke 23:21
but they kept shouting out, “Crucify, crucify Him!”
Acts 13:28
And though they found no cause or charge deserving death, they asked Pilate to have Him executed.