Hechos 13:28

28 Y aunque no hallaron causa para darle muerte, pidieron a Pilato que le hiciera matar.

Hechos 13:28 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 13:28

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.

Hechos 13:28 In-Context

26 Hermanos, hijos del linaje de Abraham, y los que entre vosotros teméis a Dios, a nosotros nos es enviada la palabra de esta salvación.

27 Pues los que habitan en Jerusalén y sus gobernantes, sin reconocerle a El ni las palabras de los profetas que se leen todos los días de reposo, cumplieron estas escrituras, condenándole.

28 Y aunque no hallaron causa para darle muerte, pidieron a Pilato que le hiciera matar.

29 Y cuando habían cumplido todo lo que estaba escrito acerca de El, le bajaron de la cruz y le pusieron en un sepulcro.

30 Pero Dios le levantó de entre los muertos;