Tertullian An Answer to the Jews

slay Him, saying to Pilate, when he was desirous to dismiss Him, "His blood be upon us, and upon our children; "[122]

Tertullian On Baptism

intervenes; witness Pilate's hands:[93]

Tertullian On Prayer

When I was scrupulously making a thorough investigation of this practice, and searching into the reason of it, I ascertained it to be a commemorative act, bearing on the surrender[85]

Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book V

aptizing your catechumens, and reading the Gospel with fear and trembling, and speaking to the people such things as tend to their salvation: put an end to your sorrow, and beseech God that Israel may be converted, and that He will allow them place of repentance, and the remission of their impiety; for the judge, who was a stranger, "washed his hands, and said, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. But Israel cried out, His blood be on us, and on our children."[149]

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