Handelingen 13:28

28 En geen oorzaak des doods vindende, hebben zij van Pilatus begeerd, dat Hij zou gedood worden.

Handelingen 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.

Handelingen 13:28 In-Context

26 Mannen broeders, kinderen van het geslacht Abrahams, en die onder u God vrezen, tot u is het woord dezer zaligheid gezonden.

27 Want die te Jeruzalem wonen, en hun oversten, Dezen niet kennende, hebben ook de stemmen der profeten, die op elken sabbat dag gelezen worden, Hem veroordelende, vervuld;

28 En geen oorzaak des doods vindende, hebben zij van Pilatus begeerd, dat Hij zou gedood worden.

29 En als zij alles volbracht hadden, wat van Hem geschreven was, namen zij Hem af van het hout, en legden Hem in het graf.

30 Maar God heeft Hem uit de doden opgewekt;