Then all the leaders from the town nearest the place where the murdered person was found are to wash their hands over the cow

and say, 'We did not murder this one, and we do not know who did it.

No soap can wash away my sins.

God throws me into a pit with filth, and even my clothes are ashamed of me.

LORD, I wash my hands to show that I am innocent and march in worship around your altar.

You will all be disgraced---you that say that a tree is your father and that a rock is your mother. This will happen because you turned away from me instead of turning to me. But when you are in trouble, you ask me to come and save you.

you say, 'I am innocent; surely the LORD is no longer angry with me.' But I, the LORD, will punish you because you deny that you have sinned.

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

Then what the prophet Jeremiah had said came true: "They took the thirty silver coins, the amount the people of Israel had agreed to pay for him,

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!"

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."

He was holy and good, but you rejected him, and instead you asked Pilate to do you the favor of turning loose a murderer.

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.

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,