7 Bible Verses about Plea Of Innocence

You are witnesses, and so is God, to our behaviour among you believers, how pious and upright and blameless it was,

Now when Pilate saw that instead of him doing any good a riot was rising, he took some water and washed his hands in presence of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this good man's blood. It is your affair!"

in point of ardour a persecutor of the church, immaculate by the standard of legal righteousness.

Three days later, he called the leading Jews together, and when they met he said to them, "Brothers, although I have done nothing against the People or our ancestral customs, I was handed over to the Romans as a prisoner from Jerusalem.

Therefore do I protest before you this day that I am not responsible for the blood of any of you;

Paul's defence was, "I have committed no offence against the Law of the Jews, against the temple, or against Caesar."

See what this pain divine has done for you, how serious it has made you, how keen to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how eager for me, how determined, how relentless! You have shown in every way that you were honest in the business.