His blood be on us, and on our children

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Matt 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. 25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

His blood be on us, and on our children. Consider that declaration. The Jews said it.

The Jewish people are a very interesting and special people. Consider the following:

God said to Abraham, "Get out of your country, from your family and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; And you shall be a blessing: I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." (the later, a prophesy of a coming Jewish messiah). Genesis 12:1-3.

Deut 15:6 For the Lord thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.

See God’s promise to bless Abraham and his descendants

Thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow. Considering what we know about Jews, I think that is a very interesting statement.

That is all one part of the story. But there is another part: His blood be on us, and on our children. That is the other part of the story. I think if you will consider the history of the Jews you will understand what I mean. There is a curse here.

Jesus Christ was the messiah that God had promised the Jews. He was in fact God himself come down to earth in human form. He was the incarnation of God. He came down to this earth from his comfortable abode up in heaven for a very selfless purpose: to preach a particular message, a message of repentance and obedience to God, and to save sinful man from his sins by dying on a cross as a sacrifice for sin. He came knowing what was going to happen to him, knowing that he was going to be rejected, abused and crucified. And he came on his own accord, all for the love of his beloved creation: wicked, rebellious, sinful man. He came performing all kinds of miracles everywhere, healing the deaf and the blind, raising the dead, turning water into wine, walking on the sea, etc.— miracles attesting to his divine nature. Huge crowds followed him everywhere as he healed thousands. Read all of the amazing accounts of his miracles in the gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John). And the Jews rejected him. They rejected that messiah that God had sent. They were expecting a king who would come in pomp and great power. Their messiah instead presented himself as a humble person preaching a profound message of self-denial, service, meekness, humility, peacefulness, forgiveness, righteousness, purity, faith, concern for the needy and afflicted, love of God, love of neighbor. The Jews rejected him and demanded that he be crucified. And the Jews said, “His blood be on us, and on our children”.

They crucified their creator, God himself.

Let me say this. I would say that the main theme of the Bible is the wickedness and depravity of man. Man has always been in rebellion against God. Those Jews who demanded the crucifixion of Jesus were just wicked, sinful people. No more wicked and sinful than the people of our modern western world. It is all the same. Sinful people who don’t take God seriously. People addicted to their sinful ways.

July 2019