Matthew 27:25
Good News Translation
The whole crowd answered, "Let the responsibility for his death fall on us and on our children!"

New Revised Standard Version
Then the people as a whole answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

Contemporary English Version
Everyone answered, "We and our own families will take the blame for his death!"

New American Bible
And the whole people said in reply, “His blood be upon us and upon our children.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the whole people answering, said: His blood be upon us and upon our children.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the whole people answering, said: His blood be upon us and upon our children.

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Matthew 21:44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.

Matthew 23:30-37 And say: If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. . . .

Numbers 35:33 Defile not the land of your habitation, which is stained with the blood of the innocent: neither can it otherwise be expiated, but by his blood that hath shed the blood of another.

Deuteronomy 19:10,13 That innocent blood may not be shed in the midst of the land which the Lord thy God will give thee to possess, lest thou be guilty of blood. . . .

Joshua 2:19 Whosoever shall go out of the door of thy house, his blood shall be upon his own head, and we shall be quit. But the blood of all that shall be with thee in the house, shall light upon our head, if any man touch them.

2 Samuel 1:16 And David said to him: Thy blood be upon thy own head: for thy own mouth hath spoken against thee, saying: I have slain the Lord's anointed.

2 Samuel 3:28,29 And when David heard of it, after the thing was now done, he said: I, and my kingdom are innocent before the Lord for ever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner: . . .

1 Kings 2:32 And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head; because he murdered two men, just and better than himself: and slew them with the sword, my father, David, not knowing it; Abner, the son of Ner, general of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether general of the army of Juda;

2 Kings 24:3,4 And this came by the word of the Lord against Juda, to remove them from before him for all the sins of Manasses which he did; . . .

Psalm 109:12-19 May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring. . . .

Ezekiel 22:2-4 And thou son of man, dost thou not judge, dost thou not judge the city of blood? . . .

Ezekiel 24:7-9 For her blood is in the midst of her, she hath shed it upon the smooth rock: she hath not shed it upon the ground, that it might be covered with dust. . . .

Acts 5:28 Saying: Commanding, we commanded you that you should not teach in this name. And behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine: and you have a mind to bring the blood of this man upon us.

Acts 7:52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One: of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers.

1 Thessalonians 2:15,16 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men; . . .

Hebrews 10:28-30 A man making void the law of Moses dieth without any mercy under two or three witnesses: . . .

and.

Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

Ezekiel 18:14 But if he beget a son, who, seeing all his father's sins, which he hath done, is afraid, and shall not do the like to them:

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Context
Pilate Washes his Hands
24And Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, taking water washed his hands before the people, saying: I am innocent of the blood of this just man. Look you to it. 25And the whole people answering, said: His blood be upon us and upon our children. 26Then he released to them Barabbas: and having scourged Jesus, delivered him unto them to be crucified.…
Cross References
Joshua 2:19
Whosoever shall go out of the door of thy house, his blood shall be upon his own head, and we shall be quit. But the blood of all that shall be with thee in the house, shall light upon our head, if any man touch them.

Acts 5:28
Saying: Commanding, we commanded you that you should not teach in this name. And behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine: and you have a mind to bring the blood of this man upon us.

Acts 18:6
But they gainsaying and blaspheming, he shook his garments and said to them: Your blood be upon your own heads: I am clean. From henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

Matthew 27:24
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