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Can you answer it in your own words as though you were explaining it to someone else? If you can, then you know what the main point is.
Pilate took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying: I am innocent of the blood of this man. You yourselves must see to it. At that all the people said in answer: ‘His blood come upon us and upon our children.’ Then he released Barabbas to them, but he had Jesus whipped and handed him over to be impaled. (Matt. 27:24-26) You hear the same kind of cries today by false religionists and atheists against true followers of Jesus