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Acts 13:28
Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.
Acts 13:28 · New Heart English Bible
Acts 13:28 in other translations
And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.
And though they found no ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have Him executed.
Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.
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In context
25 As John was fulfilling his course, he said, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.'
26 Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to us.
27 For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they did not know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.
28 Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.
29 When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and placed him in a tomb.
30 But God raised him from the dead,
31 and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.
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