Matthew 27:25

The crowd accepts responsibility, crying 'His blood be on us and our children.' They invoke Jesus' death upon themselves.

Cross-references · 19

• Josh 2:19It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.
• Acts 5:28saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us.”
• Acts 7:52Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
• 1 Th 2:15–16who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn’t please God, and are contrary to all men;
• Deut 19:10This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.
• Num 35:33“‘So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
• Matt 23:30–37and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’
• 1 Kgs 2:32Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.
• Ps 109:12–19Let there be no one to extend kindness to him, neither let there be anyone to have pity on his fatherless children.
• Heb 10:28–30A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
• Ezek 18:14–32“Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father’s sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;
• 2 Kgs 24:3–4Surely at the commandment of Yahweh this came on Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did,
• 2 Sam 1:16David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’”
• 2 Sam 3:28–29Afterward, when David heard it, he said, “I and my kingdom are guiltless before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.
• Ezek 24:7–9For her blood is in the middle of her; she set it on the bare rock; she didn’t pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.
• Exod 20:5you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
• Deut 19:13Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.
• Matt 21:44He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”
• Ezek 22:2–4“You, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.

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