Matthew 27:25 - Revised Standard Version

²⁵ And all the people 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

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

1 Kings 2:32

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

Exodus 20:5

you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Numbers 35:33

You shall not thus 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 him who shed it.

Matthew 21:44

Acts 18:6

And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be upon your heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

Acts 5:28

saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and you intend to bring this man's blood upon us.”

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,

Deuteronomy 19:10

lest innocent blood be shed in your land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you.

Deuteronomy 19:13

Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may be well with you.

Joshua 2:19

If any one goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we shall be guiltless; but if a hand is laid upon any one who is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head.