MATTHEW 27:24 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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.”
So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying: I am innocent of this man's blood; see to it yourselves. Pilate's handwashing: the public washing of hands as a declaration of innocence is a gesture with roots in Deuteronomy 21:6–7 (the elders who wash their hands over the heifer to declare innocence of a murder). The I am innocent of this man's blood echoes Judas' I have sinned by betraying innocent blood. Two declarations of Jesus' innocence from those who condemned him.
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