Matthew 27:25 “All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!””

Matthew 27:25

All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

All the people answered, “May his blood be on us and on our children!”

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Then answered all the people, and saide, His bloud be on vs, and on our children.

Darby Translation

And all the people answering said, His blood [be] on us and on our children.

Young's Literal Translation

and all the people answering said, 'His blood [is] upon us, and upon our children!'

Bible in Basic English

And all the people made answer and said, Let his blood be on us, and on our children.

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Cross references

“His”

Joshua 2:19 Acts 5:28 Acts 7:52 Deuteronomy 19:10 Matthew 23:30–37 Numbers 35:33

Joshua 2:19 · BSB

If anyone goes out the door of your house into the street, his blood will be on his own head, and we will be innocent. But if a hand is laid on anyone with you in the house, his blood will be on our heads.

Acts 5:28 · BSB

“We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man’s blood.”

Acts 7:52 · BSB

Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

Deuteronomy 19:10 · BSB

Thus innocent blood will not be shed in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.

Matthew 23:30–37 · BSB

And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

Numbers 35:33 · BSB

Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

“and”

Ezekiel 18:14–32 Exodus 20:5

Ezekiel 18:14–32 · BSB

Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise:

Exodus 20:5 · BSB

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

24When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that instead a riot was breaking out, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood, ” he said. “You bear the responsibility.”

26So Pilate released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed Him over to be crucified.

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