Matthew 27:24

Overview - Matthew 27
1	Christ is delivered bound to Pilate.
3	Judas hangs himself.
19	Pilate, admonished of his wife,
20	and being urged by the multitude, washes his hands, and looses Barabbas.
27	Christ is mocked and crowned with thorns;
33	crucified;
39	reviled;
50	dies, and is buried;
62	his sepulchre is sealed and watched.

Matthew 27:24  (King James Version)
When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.