Matthew 27:25. His blood, i.e., the guilt of the punishment, if He be innocent, be upon us. Pilate formally puts the responsibility upon them; but in a fanatical hate they assume it themselves, even adding, and on our children. Peculiar to Matthew, who wrote mainly for Jewish Christians. The imprecation has been a fearful legacy from that generation. But the curse will be turned to a blessing, and the blood of Christ be on that people in its cleansing, healing power (Romans 11:25-26). As the persecutions of the Jews have been mainly through unjust civil enactments, compare the last cry of the chief priests: ‘We have no king but Cesar' (John 19:15).

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