Teks -- Acts 13:28 (NET)

13:28 Though they found no basis for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed.

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Robertson: Act 13:28 - Though they found no cause of death

Though they found no cause of death ( mēdemian aitian thanatou heurontes ).

Second aorist active with usual negative of the participle. As a matter of fact the Sanhedrin did charge Jesus with blasphemy, but could not prove it (Mat 26:65; Mat 27:24; Luk 23:22). At this time no Gospel had probably been written, but Paul knew that Jesus was innocent. He uses this same idiom about his own innocence (Act 28:18).

Robertson: Act 13:28 - That he should be slain

That he should be slain ( anairethēnai auton ).

First aorist passive infinitive, the accusative case, the direct object of ēitēsanto (first aorist middle indicative, asked as a favour to themselves).

JFB: Act 13:26-31 - children . . . of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God

Gentile proselytes.

JFB: Act 13:26-31 - to you is the word of this salvation sent

Both being regarded as one class, as "the Jew first," to whom the Gospel was to be addressed in the first instance.

JFB: Act 13:28 - found no cause of death

Though they sought it (Mat 26:59-60).

Clarke: Act 13:28 - They found no cause of death in him

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.

Calvin: Act 13:28 - When as they found no cause of death

28.When as they found no cause of death It was very pertinent to the matter that they should know that Christ was put to death guiltless, for we could not have been justified by his death, if he had suffered death for his own evil deeds; therefore it was requisite that he should be guiltless, that his death might be a satisfaction for the sins of the world. And, undoubtedly, I think that Paul did plainly declare that Pilate condemned Christ, not according to the office of a judge, but that he consented that he should be put to death after that he was overcome with the ungodly requests of the people; and also that the Jews were driven by lust, and not enforced by reason, to desire Christ’s death.: For it stood him upon to terrify the hearers, that they might not couple themselves ⁸⁰⁹ to so wicked a fact. But Luke doth now in few words set down, after his common custom, those things which Paul did then more at large declare.

TSK: Act 13:28

Act 3:13, Act 3:14; Mat 27:19, Mat 27:22-25; Mar 15:13-15; Luk 23:4, Luk 23:5, Luk 23:14-16, Luk 23:21-25; Joh 18:38, Joh 19:4, Joh 19:12-16

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Poole: Act 13:28 - Though they found no cause of death in him // Yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain

Though they found no cause of death in him he was a Lamb without blemish; neither had he offended the rabble that was so slanderous against him, unless by such vast goodness and kindness towards them he branded them for ingratitude.

Yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain Mat 27:22 . The Jews did condemn him, but they could not put him to death, the Romans, under whom they were subject, having reserved the power of life and death wholly unto themselves; and therefore they desired Pilate to confirm their sentence, and to cause it to be executed.

Gill: Act 13:28 - And though they found no cause of death in him // yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain

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.