His blood be on us and our children!

This was the response of the Jewish crowd when Pilate washed his hands of Jesus saying, “I am innocent of this man’s blood.  See to it yourselves.”  The Jews were saying, “we are so confident about Jesus that we are willing to put ourselves and our children under God’s curse.”  It is amazing, in light of the book of Acts and 2000 years of church history, how true this statement came to be.  Jesus’ blood came to be on many of them, but not in the way they expected.  They would certainly be under God’s curse, but only in their relation to the One who God cursed on their behalf.  Through His shed blood on the cross, Jesus bore God’s hatred of sin, His curse, for the Jews back then, and for you and me today.