22 Pilate said to them, “What then should I do with Jesus, the one who is called Christ?” They all said, “Let him be crucified!” 23 And he said, “Why? What wrong has he done?” But they began to shout[a] even louder, saying, “Let him be crucified!”

24 So Pilate, when he[b] saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but instead an uproar was developing, took water and[c] washed his[d] hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this man. You see to it!”[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 27:23 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to shout”)
  2. Matthew 27:24 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal
  3. Matthew 27:24 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“took”) has been translated as a finite verb
  4. Matthew 27:24 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  5. Matthew 27:24 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation