Pontius Pilate symbolically washed his hands, making this point. He personally felt that Jesus had done nothing to warrent a death sentence and spoke out in His defense. But, as was destined to happen, Jesus had to die in order to complete the plan of redemption. This is where the old phrase 'wash my hands of you' came from. Pilate did not want to feel responsible for Jesus' death.
Pilate washed his hands, not wrung them.
Pontius Pilate. The same Pontius Pilate who mixed the blood of the Galantiens with their sacrifices. In other words the same Pontius Pilate who killed many Galantiens, (when they went to make sacrifices at the Holy Temple) washed his hands after ordering Jesus to be crucified.
His hands and his head. See John 13:9.
To "wash one's hands" of a situation (or in this case a person) is to end your association and have nothing more to do with it. If you "washed your hands" of someone, it would mean that you renounced them, and absolved yourself of any further involvement with the person or their problems. This is nominally based on the actions of Pontius Pilate, who (according to Biblical accounts) washed his hands after essentially condemning Jesus to death by declining to free him.
No one. Pilate washed his hands to signify that he would not be held responsible for Jesus blood, that is, his death. Pilate here indicated that, contrary to Roman justice, he was condemning an innocent person to death. He was thus not against Jesus but against the way in which the Jews had him backed into a corner and had forced him to do something he rather would not.Matthew 27:2424When 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.
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But: instead of: however, he then washed his hands You could say: But then he washed his hands
She washed her hands thoroughly before preparing the meal.
Jesus has washed all our sins away.
In Galilee.
The hands should be washed before you see each patient, so germs are not passed to any one.
they washed their hands in his blood