And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
Ver. 6. And when they opposed] Gr. Αντιτασσομενων, And when they bade him battle. A military term.
Your blood be upon your own heads] Answerable to their wish, Matthew 27:25, and according to their manner of putting their sins upon the head of the sacrificed creature, Leviticus 1:4; Leviticus 3:2 .