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.

Bible References

And washed

Deuteronomy 21:6
And all the old men of that city being near to him wounded, shall wash their hands over the heifer having her neck broken in the valley:
Job 9:30
If I washed myself in snow-water, and cleansed my hands clean;
Psalm 26:6
I will wash my hands in cleanness, and I will surround thine altar, O Jehovah:
Jeremiah 2:27
Saying to the wood, Thou my father; and to the stone, Thou didst bring me forth: for they turned to me the back of the neck and not their face: and in the time of their evil they will say, Arise, and save us.

Just

Matthew 27:4
Saying, I have sinned, having delivered up guiltless blood. And they said, What to us? thou shalt see.
John 19:4
Then again went out Pilate without, and says to them, See, I lead him to you without, that ye might know that in him I find no fault.
Acts 3:14
And ye denied the Holy and Just, and demanded a man, a murderer, to be yielded to you.
2 Corinthians 5:21
For him not knowing sin, he made sin for us; that we might be the justice of God in him.
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just one for the unjust, that he might bring us near to God, truly put to death in the flesh, and made alive by the Spirit:

General references

Leviticus 22:19
For your acceptance a blameless male among the cattle, among the sheep, and among the goats.
Jeremiah 26:16
And the chiefs will say, and all the people to the priests and to the prophets: Not for this man the judgment of death, for in the name of Jehovah his God he spake to us.
Mark 6:26
And the king having been sorely grieved on account of the oaths and those reclining at table together, wished not to refuse her.
Luke 23:21
And they exclaimed, saying, Crucify, crucify him.
Acts 13:28
And having found no cause of death, they desired Pilate to have him slain.