The Blood Guilty Crowd

The words of our text today are some of the most solemn and most awful and most dreadful words that have ever been uttered by the lips of humankind. They are words that have echoed down the ages and have an impact on the news that you hear on the Radio or Television or read in the newspaper right to this very day. These words are the cry of the great crowd of Jews who had thronged into the Roman Hall of justice in Jerusalem to see the trial of the Lord Jesus Christ. 'His blood be on us and on our children'