When they come from the marketplace, they don’t eat unless they bathe, and there are many other things which they have received and hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, and bronze pots.)
“Woe to y’all, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For y’all clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but that instead a disturbance was starting, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. Y’all take care of it.”