Acts 13:28
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New International Version (©2011)
Though they found no proper ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed.

New Living Translation (©2007)
They found no legal reason to execute him, but they asked Pilate to have him killed anyway.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And though they found in him no guilt worthy of death, they asked Pilate to have him executed.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"And though they found no ground for putting Him to death, they asked Pilate that He be executed.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Though they found no grounds for the death penalty, they asked Pilate to have Him killed.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Although they found no reason to sentence him to death, they asked Pilate to have him executed.

NET Bible (©2006)
Though they found no basis for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And when they found no cause of death, they asked Pilatus to kill him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Although they couldn't find any good reason to kill him, they asked Pilate to have him executed.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.

American King James Version
And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.

American Standard Version
And though they found no cause of death in him , yet asked they of Pilate that he should be slain.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And finding no cause of death in him, they desired of Pilate, that they might kill him.

Darby Bible Translation
And having found no cause of death in him, they begged of Pilate that he might be slain.

English Revised Version
And though they found no cause of death in him, yet asked they of Pilate that he should be slain.

Webster's Bible Translation
And though they found no cause of death in him, yet they desired Pilate that he should be put to death.

Weymouth New Testament
Without having found Him guilty of any capital offence they urged Pilate to have Him put to death;

World English Bible
Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.

Young's Literal Translation
and no cause of death having found, they did ask of Pilate that he should be slain,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

13:14-31 When we come together to worship God, we must do it, not only by prayer and praise, but by the reading and hearing of the word of God. The bare reading of the Scriptures in public assemblies is not enough; they should be expounded, and the people exhorted out of them. This is helping people in doing that which is necessary to make the word profitable, to apply it to themselves. Every thing is touched upon in this sermon, which might best prevail with Jews to receive and embrace Christ as the promised Messiah. And every view, however short or faint, of the Lord's dealings with his church, reminds us of his mercy and long-suffering, and of man's ingratitude and perverseness. Paul passes from David to the Son of David, and shows that this Jesus is his promised Seed; a Saviour to do that for them, which the judges of old could not do, to save them from their sins, their worst enemies. When the apostles preached Christ as the Saviour, they were so far from concealing his death, that they always preached Christ crucified. Our complete separation from sin, is represented by our being buried with Christ. But he rose again from the dead, and saw no corruption: this was the great truth to be preached.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 28. - Asked they of for desired they, A.V. The narrative of this verse is exactly that of Luke 23:4, 5, 14-23.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And though they found no cause of death in him,.... That is, no crime that deserved death; they sought for such, but could find none; they suborned false witnesses, who brought charges against him, but could not support them; wherefore Pilate, his judge, several times declared his innocence, and would have discharged him:

yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain; they were urgent and importunate with him, that he would order him to be put to death; the power of life and death being then in the hands of the Romans; the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions read, "that they might slay him"; and the Arabic version, "that he might slay him"; and the Ethiopic version renders the whole quite contrary to the sense, "and they gave power to Pilate to hang him"; whereas the power of putting him to death was in Pilate, and not in them: and therefore they were pressing upon him, that he would order his execution, notwithstanding his innocence.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

28. found no cause of death—though they sought it (Mt 26:59, 60).

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In Pisidian Antioch
…27For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him. 28And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain. 29And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulcher. …

Matthew 27:22 "What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called the Messiah?" Pilate asked. They all answered, "Crucify him!"
Matthew 27:23 "Why? What crime has he committed?" asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!"
Mark 15:13 "Crucify him!" they shouted.
Mark 15:14 "Why? What crime has he committed?" asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!"
Luke 23:21 But they kept shouting, "Crucify him! Crucify him!"
John 19:15 But they shouted, "Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!" "Shall I crucify your king?" Pilate asked. "We have no king but Caesar," the chief priests answered.
Acts 3:14 You disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.