24When 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.
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Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-25)We have here an account of what passed in Pilate’s judgment–hall, when the blessed Jesus was brought thither betimes in the morning. Though it was no court–day, Pilate immediately took his case before him. We have there, I. The trial Christ had before Pilate. 1. His arraignment; Jesus stood before the governor, as the prisoner before the judge. We could not stand before God because of our sins, no…
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