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 nearest to the slain one, shall wash their hands over the heifer that has been beheaded in the stream.

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,

I will wash my hands in innocency; so I will go around Your altar, O Jehovah,

saying to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You gave me birth. For they have turned their back to Me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise and save us!

Just

saying, I have sinned, betraying innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? You see to that.

Then Pilate went out again and said to them, Behold, I bring him out to you so that you may know that I find no fault in him.

But you denied the Holy and Just One and desired a murderer to be given to you.

For He has made Him who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, indeed being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit;

General references

you shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the cattle, of the sheep, or of the goats.

Then the rulers and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, There is not a sentence of death for this man; for he has spoken to us in the name of Jehovah our God.

And becoming deeply grieved, the king, because of his oath, and those reclining together, he did not wish to reject her.

But they cried, saying, Crucify! Crucify Him!

And finding not one cause of death in Him, they begged Pilate to do away with Him.