What Does Matthew 27:25 Mean in the King James?
Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse turns the cost of a death into an inherited burden, placing it on children who never speak.
THE MEANING
A gathered voice claims responsibility for a death and extends that burden to the next generation. The verse exposes how words spoken in a moment can reach people who had no voice in them.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a group’s declaration stops with the people who speak it: the burden can reach children without their consent.
THE ROOT
αἷμα
haima
GROWS FROM
αἷμα
haima
Blood; blood poured out or shed.
αἷμα (haima, “blood”) names something concrete: blood that can be shed or flow from a living body. Here, the word makes the speakers’ claim attach to a death and carry forward to their children, rather than remain an abstract declaration.
ALSO GROWS
haimatekchysia: The shedding or pouring out of blood.
αἱματεκχυσία
This branch names blood as something violently poured out, sharpening the weight of the death the verse invokes.
haimorrhoeō: To suffer a flow of blood.
αἱμορροέω
This branch shows blood as life physically flowing from a body, grounding the verse’s language in the cost of actual violence.
THE PATTERN
Shed blood is not silent in Scripture: it bears witness and carries consequences beyond the act.
And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.THE THREAD
Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.Acts repeats the language of blood being placed upon people, using the same Greek word for “blood.” Here, the speakers accuse others of bringing the blood upon them; in Matthew, the gathered voice accepts that burden and extends it to the children.
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