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Postulasagan 13:28
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Acts 3:13, Acts 3:14, Matthew 27:19, Matthew 27:22-25, Mark 15:13-15, Luke 23:4, Luke 23:5, Luke 23:14-16, Luke 23:21-25, John 18:38, John 19:4, John 19:12-16
Reciprocal: Matthew 26:66 - He Matthew 27:4 - the innocent Mark 12:7 - This Luke 22:22 - truly Acts 5:30 - ye slew James 5:6 - have
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And though they found ... - They found no crime which deserved death. This is conclusively shown by the trial itself. After all their efforts; after the treason of Judas; after their employing false witnesses; still no crime was laid to his charge. The Sanhedrin condemned him for blasphemy; and yet they knew that they could not substantiate the charge before Pilate, and they therefore endeavored to procure his condemnation on the ground of sedition. Compare Luke 22:70-71, with Luke 23:1-2.
Yet desired they Pilate ... - Matthew 27:1-2; Luke 23:4-5.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Acts 13:28. They found no cause of death in him — No reason why he should be condemned. Though they accused him of several things, yet they could not substantiate the most trifling charge against him; and yet, in opposition to all justice and equity, desired Pilate to put him to death! This points their perfidy in the strongest light.
