Matthew 27:24

Pilate realized that he was accomplishing nothing. He saw that instead, the people were starting to riot. So he took a basin of water and washed his hands as the crowd was watching. He said, “ By washing my hands I am showing you that if this man dies [MTY], it is your fault, not mine!”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

23Pilate replied, “Why? What crime has he committed?” But they shouted even louder, “ Have him crucified { Command that your soldiers crucify him}!”

25And all the people answered, “The guilt for causing him to die [MTY] will be on us, and it will be on our children, too!”

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Cross References

Job 9:30If I washed myself with snow or cleansed my hands with lye/soap to get rid of my guilt,

Jeremiah 2:27You say to a piece of wood that is carved to become a sacred idol, ‘You are our father!’ And you say to a stone that you have set up, ‘You are our mother!’ You have rejected [IDM] me, but when you experience troubles, you cry out to me to rescue you.

Matthew 26:5But they said, “ We must not do it during the Passover festival, because if we do it then, the people might riot.”

Matthew 27:9By buying that field, they fulfilled these words that the prophet Jeremiah wrote long ago: They took the 30 silver coins; That was what the leaders of Israel decided that he was worth;

Matthew 27:54The officer who supervised the soldiers who nailed Jesus to the cross was standing nearby. His soldiers who had been on guard so that no one would rescue Jesus were also there. When they felt the earthquake and saw all the other things that happened, they were terrified. They exclaimed, “Truly he was both man and God! (OR, a Son of God).”

John 19:4Once more Pilate came outside and said to the crowd, “Look! I am bringing him out to you so that you may know that I do not find that he has done anything for which we should punish him any more.”

Matthew Henry on Matthew 27:12-26

Christ at the Bar of Pilate. 11 And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest. 12 And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing. 13 Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee? 14 And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly. 15 Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom… Read the whole commentary →

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