Pilate said to them, “What then shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” They all said to him, “Let Him be crucified!” Then the governor said, “Why, what evil has He done?” But they cried out all the more, saying, “Let Him be crucified!” When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but rather that a tumult was rising, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this just Person. You see to it.” And all the people answered and said, “His blood be on us and on our children.” Matthew 27:22-25

The leaders of the Jewish people 1) arrested through means of treason a teacher who questioned their authority 2) attempted to conflate a civil religious charge with a criminal capital one 3) refused to allow the government to return a non guilty verdict 4) refused to allow the government to commute Jesus' sentence 5) accepted voluntarily the temporal and eternal consequences of their actions.