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22 Pilate asked them, “Then what should I do with Jesus, who is called the Messiah?”[a]

They all said, “Let him be crucified!”

23 He asked, “What has he done wrong?”

But they kept shouting louder and louder, “Let him be crucified!”

24 Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that a riot was about to break out instead. So he took some water and washed his hands in front of the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man’s[b] blood. Attend to that yourselves.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 27:22 Or Christ
  2. Matthew 27:24 Other mss. read this righteous man’s