Cross references

Matthew 27:24

When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that instead a riot was breaking out, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “You bear the responsibility.”

Matthew 27:24 BSB
  1. a Literally this blood; BYZ and TR this righteous blood

Matthew 27:24 has 14 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Matthew 27:4 (7 votes) and Psalm 26:6 (6 votes). 56 other verses point back to it. It links with 21 other books, from Genesis 19 to 1 Peter 3.

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Which verses does Matthew 27:24 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said. “What is that to us?” they replied. “You bear the responsibility.”

  2. Psalm 26:66 votes

    I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,

  3. God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

  4. Then all the elders of the city nearest the victim shall wash their hands by the stream over the heifer whose neck has been broken, and they shall declare, “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it. …

  5. If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye, then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.

  6. “But not during the feast,” they said, “or there may be a riot among the people.”

  7. John 19:43 votes

    Once again Pilate came out and said to the Jews, “Look, I am bringing Him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against Him.”

  8. For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,

  9. say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Yet in the time of trouble, they say, ‘Rise up and save us!’

  10. you say, ‘I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.’ Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

  11. Then what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: “They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price set on Him by the people of Israel,

  12. When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified and said, “Truly this was the Son of God.”

  13. Acts 3:142 votes

    You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.

  14. While Pilate was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him this message: “Have nothing to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered terribly in a dream today because of Him.”

Which verses point to Matthew 27:24?

The 10 strongest of 56.