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 washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. Matth. 27, 24.

Luke 23, 14, 15. John 18, 38. John 19, 4.

Yes: for thereby I am assured, that He took on Himself the curse which lay upon me; because the death of the cross was ac­cursed of God.

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree. Gal. 3, 13.

Deut. 21, 22. 23.

Because, by reason of the justice and truth of God, satisfaction for our sins could be made no otherwise than by the death of the Son of God.

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Gen. 2, 17.

Hebr. 1, 14. 15. Rom. 1, 32.