Luke 23:41Easy To Read VersionYou and I are guilty; we should be killed because we did wrong. But this man (Jesus) has done nothing wrong!” See the chapter |
The bad things that happened to us are our own fault. We have done evil things, and we have much guilt. But you, our God, have punished us much less than we should have been. We have done many terrible sins, and we should have been punished worse. And you have even let some of our people escape captivity.
Pilate saw that he could do nothing to make the people change. And he saw that the people were becoming upset. So Pilate took some water and washed his hands {\cf2\super [429]} so that all the people could see. Then Pilate said, “I am not guilty of this man’s death. You are the ones that are doing it!”