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Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven.
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And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’
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And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
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This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
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“I have sinned,” he said, “for I have betrayed innocent blood.” “What is that to us?” they replied. “That’s your responsibility.”
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The chief priests picked up the coins and said, “It is against the law to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.”
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That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day.
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When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “It is your responsibility!”
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All the people answered, “His blood is on us and on our children!”
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“This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many,” he said to them.
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Therefore this generation will be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world,
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from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible for it all.
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Repent or Perish
Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
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In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
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And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.
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Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
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Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.
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For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
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Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.
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Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water.
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Everyone in Jerusalem heard about this, so they called that field in their language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)
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I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.
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The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.
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“We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man’s blood.”
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Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.
