Matthew 27:25

And all the people answered, and said His blood be on us, and on our children!

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

24And Pilate, when he saw that it availed nothing, but rather that tumult was produced, took water, and washed his hands before the eyes of the multitude, and said: I am pure from the blood of this just man: see ye to it.

26Then released he to them Bar Abas; and scourged Jesus with whips and delivered him to be crucified.

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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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