Matthew 27:24-26 Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that a riot was about to break out instead. So he took some water and washed his hands in front of the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. Attend to that yourselves.” All the people answered, “Let his blood be on us and our children!” Then he released Barabbas for them, but he had Jesus whipped and handed over to be crucified.
Pilate had tried everything he could to convince the people to NOT crucify Jesus. But the final say was his. The "washing of the hands" was a Biblical principle for the case of a corpse of a person who had been murdered but no one knew who did it. Here they knew exactly who was doing it, and the act had not yet been committed - it was preventable. There were no innocent hands. They were all dirty, including Pilate's.
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