Actes 13:28

28 Et sans avoir aucun motif de le mettre à mort, ils demandèrent à Pilate de le faire mourir.

Actes 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.

Actes 13:28 In-Context

26 C'est à vous, hommes frères, enfants de la race d'Abraham, et à vous qui craignez Dieu, que cette parole de salut est adressée.

27 Car les habitants de Jérusalem et leurs magistrats, l'ayant méconnu, ont accompli, en le condamnant, les paroles des prophètes, qui se lisent chaque jour de sabbat.

28 Et sans avoir aucun motif de le mettre à mort, ils demandèrent à Pilate de le faire mourir.

29 Puis quand ils eurent accompli tout ce qui a été écrit de lui, on l'ôta du bois, et on le mit dans un sépulcre.

30 Mais Dieu l'a ressuscité des morts;