28Though they found no proper ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed.


In Context

25 As John was completing his work, he said: 'Who do you think I am? I am not that one. No, but he is coming after me, whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.'

26 "Brothers, children of Abraham, and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.

27 The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.

28 Though they found no proper ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed.

29 When they had carried out all that was written about him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.

30 But God raised him from the dead,

Acts 13:28 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:28And though they found no cause of death [in him,] yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

13:28And finding no cause of death in him, they desired of Pilate, that they might kill him.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

13:28And though they found no cause of death in him , yet asked they of Pilate that he should be slain.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:28And having found no cause of death in him, they begged of Pilate that he might be slain.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

13:28And though they found no cause of death in him, yet asked they of Pilate that he should be slain.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:28And though they found no cause of death in him, yet they desired Pilate that he should be put to death.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:28Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

13:28and no cause of death having found, they did ask of Pilate that he should be slain,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:28And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.