Discovery BoxMatthew 27:24-25 
ContextJesus is Condemned and Mocked
27:24 When 1 Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but that instead a riot was starting, he took some water, washed his hands before the crowd and said, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. You take care of it yourselves!” 2 27:25 In 3 reply all the people said, “Let his blood be on us and on our children!”
1 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
2 sn You take care of it yourselves! Compare the response of the chief priests and elders to Judas in 27:4. The expression is identical except that in 27:4 it is singular and here it is plural.
3 tn Grk “answering, all the people said.” This construction is somewhat redundant in English and has been simplified in the translation.
