"Then answered all the people, and said, His blood {be} on us, and on our children." — Matthew 27:25

Matthew 27:25 · KJV

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

— Matthew 27:25

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}.

Verse 26

Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered {him} to be crucified.

Matthew 27 — Context

And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.

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

Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered {him} to be crucified.

Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band {of soldiers}. {common hall: or, governor's house}

Cross References

Joshua 2:19

And it shall be, {that} whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood {shall be} upon his head, and we {will be} guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood {shall be} on our head, if {any} hand be upon him.

Acts 5:28

Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

Deuteronomy 19:10

That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee {for} an inheritance, and {so} blood be upon thee.

1 Thessalonians 2:15-16

Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: {persecuted us: or, chased us out}

Matthew 23:30-37

And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

Numbers 35:33

So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye {are}: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. {the land cannot...: Heb. there can be no expiation for the land}

1 Kings 2:32

And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing {thereof, to wit}, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.