24 [a]When Pilate saw that he availed nothing, but that more tumult was made, he took water and [b]washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the [c]blood of this just man: look you to it.

25 Then answered all the people, and said, [d]His blood be on us, and on our children.

26 Thus let he Barabbas loose unto them, and scourged Jesus, and delivered him to be crucified.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 27:24 Christ being quit by the testimony of the Judge himself, is notwithstanding condemned by the same to quit us before God.
  2. Matthew 27:24 It was a manner in old time, when any man was murdered, and in other slaughters, to wash their hands in water, to declare themselves guiltless.
  3. Matthew 27:24 Of the murder; an Hebrew kind of speech.
  4. Matthew 27:25 If there be any offence committed in slaying him, let us and our posterity smart for it.

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