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Matthew 27:25

All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

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ASV

And all the people answered and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

KJV

Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

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Joshua 2:19If anyone goes out the door of your house into the street, his blood will be on his own head, and we will be innocent. But if a hand is laid on anyone with you in the house, his blood will be on our heads.Acts 5:28“We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man’s blood.”Acts 7:52Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—Genesis 27:13His mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”Deuteronomy 19:10Thus innocent blood will not be shed in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.1 Thessalonians 2:15–16who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,Acts 18:6But when they opposed and insulted him, he shook out his garments and told them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”Numbers 35:33Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.Matthew 23:30–37And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’1 Thessalonians 2:15who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,1 Kings 2:32The LORD will bring his bloodshed back upon his own head, for without the knowledge of my father David he struck down two men more righteous and better than he when he put to the sword Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.Hebrews 10:28–30Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.Psalms 109:12–19May there be no one to extend kindness to him, and no one to favor his fatherless children.Proverbs 12:13An evil man is trapped by his rebellious speech, but a righteous man escapes from trouble.Jeremiah 32:18You show loving devotion to thousands but lay the iniquity of the fathers into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of Hosts,John 11:48If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”Ezekiel 24:7–9For the blood she shed is still within her; she poured it out on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.2 Samuel 3:28–29Afterward, David heard about this and said, “I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the LORD concerning the blood of Abner son of Ner.

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