Matthew 27:25 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

²⁵ Then the people as a whole answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ And all the people answered, Let His blood be on us and on our children! [Josh. 2:19.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ And all the people answered and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

Common English Bible

²⁵ All the people replied, “Let his blood be on us and on our children.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ And the entire people responded by saying, "May his blood be upon us and upon our children."

Matthew 27:25 Cross References

2 Samuel 1:16

David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have killed the Lord's anointed.’ ”

1 Kings 2:32

The Lord will bring back his bloody deeds on his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, Abner son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me,

Numbers 35:33

You shall not pollute the land in which you live; for blood pollutes the land, and no expiation can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

Matthew 21:44

The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.”

Acts 18:6

When they opposed and reviled him, in protest he shook the dust from his clothes and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

Acts 5:28

saying, “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and you are determined to bring this man's blood on us.”

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers.

Deuteronomy 19:10

so that the blood of an innocent person may not be shed in the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, thereby bringing bloodguilt upon you.

Deuteronomy 19:13

Show no pity; you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

Joshua 2:19

If any of you go out of the doors of your house into the street, they shall be responsible for their own death, and we shall be innocent; but if a hand is laid upon any who are with you in the house, we shall bear the responsibility for their death.