²⁴ And Pilate having seen that it profiteth nothing, but rather a tumult is made, having taken water, he did wash the hands before the multitude, saying, `I am innocent from the blood of this righteous one; ye -- ye shall see;'

⁴ `I did sin, having delivered up innocent blood;' and they said, `What -- to us? thou shalt see!'

⁶ I wash in innocency my hands, And I compass Thine altar, O Jehovah.

⁵ and they said, `Not in the feast, that there may not be a tumult among the people.'

⁶ and all the elders of that city, who are near unto the slain one, do wash their hands over the heifer which is beheaded in the valley,

⁷ and they have answered and said, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen --

⁸ receive atonement for Thy people Israel, whom Thou hast ransomed, O Jehovah, and suffer not innocent blood in the midst of Thy people Israel; and the blood hath been pardoned to them,

¹⁸ because also Christ once for sin did suffer -- righteous for unrighteous -- that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,

²¹ for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

¹⁴ and ye the Holy and Righteous One did deny, and desired a man -- a murderer -- to be granted to you,

⁴ Pilate, therefore, again went forth without, and saith to them, `Lo, I do bring him to you without, that ye may know that in him I find no fault;'

⁵⁴ And the centurion, and those with him watching Jesus, having seen the earthquake, and the things that were done, were exceedingly afraid, saying, `Truly this was God's Son.'

¹⁹ And as he is sitting on the tribunal, his wife sent unto him, saying, `Nothing -- to thee and to that righteous one, for many things did I suffer to-day in a dream because of him.'

⁹ Then was fulfilled that spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying, `And I took the thirty silverlings, the price of him who hath been priced, whom they of the sons of Israel did price,

³⁵ And thou sayest, `Because I have been innocent, Surely turned back hath His anger from me?' Lo, I have been judged with thee, Because of thy saying, `I have not sinned.'

²⁷ Saying to wood, `My father `art' thou!' And to a stone, `Thou hast brought me forth,' For they turned unto me the back and not the face, And in the time of their vexation, They say, `Arise Thou, and save us.'

³⁰ If I have washed myself with snow-water, And purified with soap my hands,

³¹ Then in corruption Thou dost dip me, And my garments have abominated me.