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

All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;

If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, LORD;

who tell wood, 'You are my father;' and a stone, 'You have brought me out:' 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 in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."

Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, "Look, I am bringing him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him."

But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a man who was a murderer to be granted to you,

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

General references

that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without blemish, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.

Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets: "This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God."

And the king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he did not wish to refuse her.

but they shouted, saying, "Crucify. Crucify him."

Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.