A Hard Road Ahead of Them

“Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be as wary as serpents, and as innocent as doves.

Or have you not read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath, and yet are innocent?

But if you had known what this means: ‘I desire compassion, rather than sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.

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

Now when Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather that a riot was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this Man’s blood; you yourselves shall see.”