“And Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing, but that rather a tumult was made; taking water washed his hands before the people, saying: I am innocent of the blood of this just man; look you to it. And the whole people answering, said: His blood be upon us and our children.” (Matt 27.24)
The question of inherited guilt is a fraught one. But for a variety of complex reasons, spiritual, theological, pathological, the Jews have born such guilt down the generations and the list of pogroms and massacres defaces shames humanity in every century.
