Matthew Chapter 27 verse 25 Holy Bible
And all the people answered and said, His blood `be' on us, and on our children.
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And all the people made answer and said, Let his blood be on us, and on our children.
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And all the people answering said, His blood [be] on us and on our children.
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Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
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All the people answered, "May his blood be on us, and on our children!"
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and all the people answering said, `His blood `is' upon us, and upon our children!'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 25. - Then answered all the people. Instigated by the Sanhedrists working insidiously among them, the multitude, now very numerous, respond with fiendish alacrity to Pilate's deprecation. It was a unanimous, a national assumption of guilt, lightly undertaken, terribly vindicated. His blood be on us, and on our children. The consequences of this condemnation, be they what they may, we are willing to suffer. Let God visit it, if he will. upon us and our children; we and they will cheerfully bear the penalty. A mad and impious imprecation. the fulfilment of which quickly commenced, and has continued unto this day. The terrible events connected with the destruction of Jerusalem, the overthrow of the theocracy, and the eighteen centuries of exile and dispersion, bear witness to the reality of the vengeance thus wantonly invoked. "As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them" (Psalm 140:9).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(25) His blood be on us, and on our children.--The passionate hate of the people leads them, as if remembering the words of their own Law, to invert the prayer--which Pilate's act had, it may be, brought to their remembrance--"Lay not innocent blood to Thy people of Israel's charge" (Deuteronomy 21:8), into a defiant imprecation. No more fearful prayer is recorded in the history of mankind; and a natural feeling has led men to see its fulfilment in the subsequent shame and misery that were for centuries the portion of the Jewish people. We have to remember, however, that but a fractional part of the people were present; that some at least of the rulers, such as Joseph of Arimathaea, Nicodemus, and probably Gamaliel, had not consented to the deed of blood (Luke 23:51), and that even in such a case as this it is still true that "the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father" (Ezekiel 18:20), except so far as he consents to it, and reproduces it.
