Matthew 27:4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.

Matthew 27:24 When 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.

I was interested in innocence this morning and found that the word innocent only appears twice in the KJV New Testament. These are those two verses. Both ended with phrases that imply emphatically, “That’s your problem.” See thou and see ye implies personal responsibility is required of that and it, which is the innocent blood of Jesus Christ.

Strangely enough the most prophetic words spoken in this chapter is given in response to Pilate by the crowd in verse 25.

“Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.”

Do you see it? “all the people” In the crowd was a mixture of believers and non-believers. They all answered and rightly so, that the innocent blood was on them and on their children, meaning all generations to follow. That’s on us, it is our problem. See to it. What are we going to do?

Will you stand in the blood, which is to be guilty of the blood?

Or will you be covered by the blood which hides all your sins from the eyes of the Father?

The choice is yours.