MATTHEW 27:25 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.”
And all the people answered: his blood be on us and on our children! The people's acceptance of the blood guilt: his blood be on us and on our children. This verse has been catastrophically misused throughout church history to justify antisemitism. Within Matthew's narrative, the declaration communicates the tragic acceptance of the covenant-curse (Deuteronomy 27–28) by those who reject the covenant's fulfillment — a judgment that Matthew's readers, writing after 70 AD, understood in the context of Jerusalem's destruction.
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