“Their feet are swift to shed blood,

For the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sins.

because they poured out the blood of your saints and prophets, so you have given them blood to drink. They got what they deserved!”

and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep.”

for this is my blood, the blood of the covenant, that is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood!” But they said, “What is that to us? You take care of it yourself!”

In reply all the people said, “Let his blood be on us and on our children!”

He said to them, “This is my blood, the blood of the covenant, that is poured out for many.

so that this generation may be held accountable for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world,

For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him.

But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water flowed out immediately.

And I will perform wonders in the sky above and miraculous signs on the earth below, blood and fire and clouds of smoke.

the Spirit and the water and the blood, and these three are in agreement.

The blood of the saints and prophets was found in her, along with the blood of all those who had been killed on the earth.”

Now there were some present on that occasion who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

The sun will be changed to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.

But regarding the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter, having decided that they should avoid meat that has been sacrificed to idols and blood and what has been strangled and sexual immorality.”

Now this is what I am saying, brothers and sisters: Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.