Acts 13:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁸ Even though they found no cause for a sentence of death, they asked Pilate to have him killed.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ And although they could find no cause deserving death with which to charge Him, yet they asked Pilate to have Him executed and put out of the way.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ And though they found no cause of death in him, yet asked they of Pilate that he should be slain.

Common English Bible

²⁸ Even though they didn’t find a single legal basis for the death penalty, they asked Pilate to have him executed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ And although they found no case for death against him, they petitioned Pilate, so that they might put him to death.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ And finding no cause of death in him, they desired of Pilate, that they might kill him.

Acts 13:28 Cross References

Matthew 27:19

While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that innocent man, for today I have suffered a great deal because of a dream about him.”

John 18:38

Pilate asked him, “What is truth?” After he had said this, he went out to the Jews again and told them, “I find no case against him.

John 19:4

Pilate went out again and said to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no case against him.”