Matthew 27:25

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

All the people answered, ‘His blood be on us  and on our children! ’

Cross References

Joshua 2:19

If anyone goes out the doors of your house, his death will be his own fault,  and we will be innocent. But if anyone with you in the house should be harmed, his death will be our fault.

Acts 5:28

‘Didn’t we strictly order you not to teach in this name?  Look, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man’s blood.’

Acts 7:52

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

Deuteronomy 19:10

In this way, innocent blood will not be shed, and you will not become guilty of bloodshed in the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Numbers 35:33

‘Do not defile the land where you live, for bloodshed defiles the land,  and there can be no atonement for the land because of the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of the person who shed it.

1 Kings 2:32

The Lord will bring back his own blood on his head because he struck down two men more righteous and better than he, without my father David’s knowledge. With his sword, Joab murdered Abner  son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa  son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.

2 Samuel 1:16

For David had said to the Amalekite, ‘Your blood is on your own head  because your own mouth testified against you by saying, “I killed the Lord’s anointed.” ’

Deuteronomy 19:13

Do not look on him with pity but purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, and you will prosper.

Exodus 20:5

Do not bow in worship to them, and do not serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God,  bringing the consequences of the fathers’ iniquity on the children to the third and fourth generations  of those who hate me,

Matthew 21:44

Whoever falls on this stone will be broken to pieces;   but on whomever it falls, it will shatter him.’

Acts 18:6

When they resisted and blasphemed,  he shook out his clothes  and told them, ‘Your blood is on your own heads!  I am innocent.  From now on I will go to the Gentiles.’