And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain person shall wash their hands in the stream over the heifer whose neck was broken.

And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it.

If I wash myself with snow water, and cleanse my hands with soap,

yet You will plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes would abhor me.

I will wash my hands in innocence; thus I will go around Your altar, O Jehovah,

saying to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You gave birth to me. For they have turned their back to Me, and not their face; but in the time of their distress they will say, Arise and save us!

Yet you say, Because I am innocent, surely His anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with you, because you say, I have not sinned.

saying, I have sinned by betraying innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? You see to it.

Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of Him who was valued, whom they of the children of Israel valued,

Now when the centurion and those with him, who were guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God!

Pilate then went out again, and said to them, Behold, I am bringing Him out to you, that you may know that I find no fault in Him.

But you denied the Holy and Just One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,