28 Though they found no proper ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed.
28 And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.
28 And though they found in him no guilt worthy of death, they asked Pilate to have him executed.
28 They couldn't find a good reason, but demanded that Pilate execute him anyway.
28 And though they found no cause for death in Him, they asked Pilate that He should be put to death.
28 They found no legal reason to execute him, but they asked Pilate to have him killed anyway.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Acts 13:28
Commentary on Acts 13:14-31
(Read Acts 13:14-31)
When we come together to worship God, we must do it, not only by prayer and praise, but by the reading and hearing of the word of God. The bare reading of the Scriptures in public assemblies is not enough; they should be expounded, and the people exhorted out of them. This is helping people in doing that which is necessary to make the word profitable, to apply it to themselves. Every thing is touched upon in this sermon, which might best prevail with Jews to receive and embrace Christ as the promised Messiah. And every view, however short or faint, of the Lord's dealings with his church, reminds us of his mercy and long-suffering, and of man's ingratitude and perverseness. Paul passes from David to the Son of David, and shows that this Jesus is his promised Seed; a Saviour to do that for them, which the judges of old could not do, to save them from their sins, their worst enemies. When the apostles preached Christ as the Saviour, they were so far from concealing his death, that they always preached Christ crucified. Our complete separation from sin, is represented by our being buried with Christ. But he rose again from the dead, and saw no corruption: this was the great truth to be preached.