Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him.”
When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him.”
Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in him.
Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no guilt in this man.”
Now when the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God, saying, “Certainly this man was innocent!”
You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.
but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.”
When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!”
So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man's blood; see to it yourselves.”
Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream.”
saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.”
For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
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