Matthew 27:24

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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

Just

1 Peter 3:18

General references

Acts 13:28

Bible References

And washed

and, all the elders of that city who are nearest unto the slain, shall bathe their hands over the heifer that hath boon beheaded in the ravine,

Though I bathe myself in snow water, and cleanse, in cleanness itself, my hands,

I will bathe, in pureness, my hands, - so will I go in procession around thine altar, O Yahweh;

Saying, to a tree, My father, art thou! And to a stone, Thou, didst give us birth, For they have turned unto me the back and not the face, - But in the time of their calamity, they will say, Arise, and save us!

Just

saying - I have sinned, in delivering up righteous blood. But, they, said - What is that to us? thou, shalt see to it for thyself.

And Pilate went forth again outside, and saith unto them - See! I lead him unto you outside, that ye may take knowledge, that, no single fault, do I find in him.

But, ye, denied, the Holy and Righteous One, and claimed a man that was a murderer to be granted you;

Him who knew not sin, in our behalf, he made to be, sin, that we might become God's righteousness in him.

Because, Christ also, once for all, concerning sins, died, - Just in behalf of unjust, - in order that he might introduce us unto God; being put to death, indeed, in flesh, but made alive in spirit, -

General references

that ye may be accepted, it must be a male without defect, of the beeves, or of the sheep, or of the goats:

Then said the princes, and all the people, unto the priests and unto the prophets, - There is nothing in this man worthy of death, for in the name of Yahweh our God, hath he spoken unto us.

And, though the king was, very grieved, yet, by reason of the oaths, and of them who were reclining, he would not refuse her.

But, they, called out in return, saying - Crucify! crucify him!

And, though no single cause of death they found, yet claimed they of Pilate that he should be slain.