Washing of Hands, a Token of Innocence
4 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
- Deuteronomy 21:6 Then all the elders of the city nearest the victim shall wash their hands by the stream over the heifer whose neck has been broken,
- Psalm 26:6 I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,
- Psalm 73:13 Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.
- Matthew 27:24 When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that instead a riot was breaking out, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “You bear the responsibility.”
Related topics
Ablution of the Hands, As a Token of InnocencyThe Hands were Washed in Token of InnocencyInnocency
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.