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24 When Pilate saw he was accomplishing nothing, but instead a riot was starting, he took some water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. “I am innocent of this blood,”[a] he said. “You see to it yourselves!”

25 All the people answered and said, “His blood be on us and on our children!”[b]

26 Then he released to them Bar-Abba. And after he had Yeshua scourged, he handed Him over to be crucified.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 27:24 Some mss. say this righteous blood or this righteous Man’s blood.
  2. Matthew 27:25 cf. Josh. 2:19.