If you are offering one of your cattle as a burnt offering, you must bring a bull without any defects. You must present it at the entrance of the Tent of the LORD's presence so that the LORD will accept you.

If you are offering one of your sheep or goats, it must be a male without any defects.

If you bring a sheep as a sin offering, it must be a female without any defects.

You may choose either a sheep or a goat, but it must be a one-year-old male without any defects.

"I have sinned by betraying an innocent man to death!" he said. "What do we care about that?" they answered. "That is your business!"

While Pilate was sitting in the judgment hall, his wife sent him a message: "Have nothing to do with that innocent man, because in a dream last night I suffered much on account of him."

When Pilate saw that it was no use to go on, but that a riot might break out, he took some water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, "I am not responsible for the death of this man! This is your doing!"

When the army officer and the soldiers with him who were watching Jesus saw the earthquake and everything else that happened, they were terrified and said, "He really was the Son of God!"

and said to them, "You brought this man to me and said that he was misleading the people. Now, I have examined him here in your presence, and I have not found him guilty of any of the crimes you accuse him of.

Ours, however, is only right, because we are getting what we deserve for what we did; but he has done no wrong."

The army officer saw what had happened, and he praised God, saying, "Certainly he was a good man!"

Pilate went back out once more and said to the crowd, "Look, I will bring him out here to you to let you see that I cannot find any reason to condemn him."

Christ was without sin, but for our sake God made him share our sin in order that in union with him we might share the righteousness of God.

in order to present the church to himself in all its beauty---pure and faultless, without spot or wrinkle or any other imperfection.

Since this is true, how much more is accomplished by the blood of Christ! Through the eternal Spirit he offered himself as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will purify our consciences from useless rituals, so that we may serve the living God.

it was the costly sacrifice of Christ, who was like a lamb without defect or flaw.

He committed no sin, and no one ever heard a lie come from his lips.

Christ himself carried our sins in his body to the cross, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness. It is by his wounds that you have been healed.

For Christ died for sins once and for all, a good man on behalf of sinners, in order to lead you to God. He was put to death physically, but made alive spiritually,