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Matthew 27:25 Cross-References
Explore 19 cross-references for Matthew 27:25 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Matthew chapter 27 verse 25 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.”
Matthew 27:25 (KJV)
Commentary on Matthew 27:25
Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children (Τὸ αἷμα αὐτοῦ ἐφ' ἡμᾶς καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ τέκνα ἡμῶν)—This self-imprecation invoked covenant curse language (Deuteronomy 27-28). They accepted full responsibility for Christ's death, unknowingly pronouncing judgment on themselves. Jerusalem's destruction (AD 70) came forty years later.Yet this statement has profound gospel irony: Christ's blood IS upon us—not for condemnation but for cleansing (Hebrews 9:14). The same blood cried for in judgment became the blood that speaks 'better things than that of Abel' (Hebrews 12:24...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Matthew 27:25
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“his blood will be on his head”
“Didn't we strictly charge you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood on us.”
“of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.”
“and drove us out”
“which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance”
“it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein”
“'If we had lived in the days of our fathers”
“He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:”
“neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.”
“because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he”