24 When Pilate (armed with a spear) 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 [this righteous blood], he said. “You⁺ bear the responsibility.”

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

Matthew 27:24-25, Berean Annotated Bible. Public domain.
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