²⁴ So when Pilate saw that he was able to do nothing, but that trouble was working up, he took water and, washing his hands before the people, said, The blood of this upright man is not on my hands: you are responsible.

⁴ Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business.

⁶ I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;

⁵ But they said, Not while the feast is going on, for fear of trouble among the people.

⁶ And all the responsible men of that town which is nearest to the dead man, washing their hands over the cow whose neck was broken in the valley,

⁷ Will say, This death is not the work of our hands and our eyes have not seen it.

⁸ Have mercy, O Lord, on your people Israel whom you have made free, and take away from your people the crime of a death without cause. Then they will no longer be responsible for the man's death.

¹⁸ Because Christ once went through pain for sins, the upright one taking the place of sinners, so that through him we might come back to God; being put to death in the flesh, but given life in the Spirit;

²¹ For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

¹⁴ But you would have nothing to do with the Holy and Upright One, and made request for a man of blood to be given to you,

⁴ And Pilate went out again and said to them, See, I let him come out to you to make it clear to you that I see no wrong in him.

⁵⁴ Now the captain and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earth-shock and the things which were done, were in great fear and said, Truly this was a son of God.

¹⁹ And while he was on the judge's seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Have nothing to do with that upright man, for I have had much trouble this day in a dream because of him.

⁹ Then came true that which was said by Jeremiah the prophet, And they took the thirty bits of silver, the price of him who was valued by the children of Israel;

³⁵ And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.

²⁷ Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.

³⁰ If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;

³¹ Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.