Luke 23:4

4 Then Pilate announced to the chief priests and the crowd, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.”

Luke 23:4 in Other Translations

4 Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man.

4 Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no guilt in this man. ”

4 Pilate turned to the leading priests and to the crowd and said, “I find nothing wrong with this man!”

4 Pilate told the high priests and the accompanying crowd, "I find nothing wrong here. He seems harmless enough to me.

4 And Pilate said unto the chief priests and the multitudes, I find no fault in this man

4 Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowd, "I can't find this man guilty of any crime."

4 Pilate then told the chief priests and the crowds, "I find no grounds for charging this man."

4 Then Pilate spoke to the chief priests and the crowd. He announced, "I find no basis for a charge against this man.

Luke 23:4 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 23:4

Then said Pilate to the Chief priests, and to the people,
&c.] Both to the sanhedrim, and to the mob that were gathered together about the governor's palace on this occasion; and who were standing without the judgment hall, into which they would not enter, lest they should be defiled, and be unfit to eat the passover: wherefore Pilate came out to them; and this was the second time of his coming out to them, when he said the following words, ( John 18:28 John 18:38 ) .

I find no fault in this man;
no cause, or reason, why any punishment should be inflicted on him, and especially he be put to death; no crime that can be fastened on him, or accusation proved against him, or any thing that amounts to a charge of sedition: the man is an harmless and innocent man, that has done nothing against Caesar, or the government, and good of the nation; and therefore is not worthy of death, or of stripes, but should be discharged. This was Pilate's sense.

Luke 23:4 In-Context

2 And they began to accuse him, saying, “We have found this man subverting our nation. He opposes payment of taxes to Caesar and claims to be Messiah, a king.”

3 So Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?” “You have said so,” Jesus replied.

4 Then Pilate announced to the chief priests and the crowd, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.”

5 But they insisted, “He stirs up the people all over Judea by his teaching. He started in Galilee and has come all the way here.”

6 On hearing this, Pilate asked if the man was a Galilean.

Cross References

• 1. ver 14,22,41; Matthew 27:23; John 18:38; 1 Timothy 6:13; S 2 Corinthians 5:21