Thematic Bible: Of hands, a token of innocence
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Washing » Of hands, a token of innocence
and all the elders of that city, who are near unto the slain one, do wash their hands over the heifer which is beheaded in the valley,
And Pilate having seen that it profiteth nothing, but rather a tumult is made, having taken water, he did wash the hands before the multitude, saying, 'I am innocent from the blood of this righteous one; ye -- ye shall see;'
Only -- a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,