Hechos 13:28

28 Aunque no encontraron ninguna causa digna de muerte, le pidieron a Pilato que lo mandara a ejecutar.

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, descendientes de Abraham, y ustedes, los gentiles temerosos de Dios: a nosotros se nos ha enviado este mensaje de salvación.

27 Los habitantes de Jerusalén y sus gobernantes no reconocieron a Jesús. Por tanto, al condenarlo, cumplieron las palabras de los profetas que se leen todos los sábados.

28 Aunque no encontraron ninguna causa digna de muerte, le pidieron a Pilato que lo mandara a ejecutar.

29 Después de llevar a cabo todas las cosas que estaban escritas acerca de él, lo bajaron del madero y lo sepultaron.

30 Pero Dios lo levantó de entre los muertos.