Matthew 27:24
Pilate, neglecting right and just judgment, did not even reason that he was giving an innocent man over to death, though he was master of delivering him. And he washes his hands, having supposed that through this he was free of the sin — which is foolish to think. Perhaps, as a gentile, he imagined that the water itself sufficed for cleansing of sins (Matthew 27:24).
Greek
Ἀμελήσας τῆς ὀρθῆς καὶ δικαίας κρίσεως ὁ Πιλᾶτος οὐδὲ ἐλο γίσατο ἐκδοῦναι ἀναίτιον εἰς θάνατον καίπερ κύριος ὢν τοῦ ἐξελέσθαι αὐτόν· καὶ νίπτεται τὰς χεῖρας ὑπονοήσας ἑαυτὸν διὰ τούτου τῆς ἁμαρ τίας ἐλεύθερον, ὅπερ ἐστὶν μωρὸν ἐννοῆσαι. τάχα δὲ ὡς ἐθνικὸς ἐνό μιζεν, ὅτι ἀρκεῖ αὐτὸ πρὸς καθαίρεσιν ἁμαρτημάτων τὸ ὕδωρ.
About this text
Catena fragments on Matthew (CPG 5206). Contents follow Matthew chapter and verse. Edition fragment numbers stay in About this text and under each passage.
English follows the named copy-text (Aegean/khazarzar Migne PG 72 extract). Other prints were checked as noted; no silent merge of recensions.
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- Copy-text Migne PG 72 Commentarii in Matthaeum (Aegean Digital Patrologia / khazarzar) (Greek · CPG 5206 catena fragments (290 parsed heads))
- Checked print matia.gr mirror of same Aegean extract (Greek · Byte-identical PDF; integrity check only)
- Checked print Internet Archive PG 72 volume OCR (bim … 1859_72) (Greek (OCR damaged) · Locus confirmation only; not used as reading text)
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