27:24 When 2 Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but that instead a riot was starting, he took some water, washed his hands before the crowd and said, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. You take care of it yourselves!” 3
1 sn The suggestion here is that Jesus was too popular to openly arrest him.
2 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
3 sn You take care of it yourselves! Compare the response of the chief priests and elders to Judas in 27:4. The expression is identical except that in 27:4 it is singular and here it is plural.