Acts 13:28

World English Bible (2000)

Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ μηδεμίαν αἰτίαν θανάτου εὑρόντες, ᾐτήσαντο Πιλάτον ἀναιρεθῆναι αὐτόν.

Transliteration

And mēdemian aitian thanatou heurontes, ētēsanto Pilaton anairethēnai him.

Grammar Details

• *mēdemian*: accusative, feminine, singular - no/not one
• *aitian*: accusative, feminine, singular - cause/reason
• *thanatou*: genitive, masculine, singular - death
• *heurontes*: aorist, active, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having found
• *ētēsanto*: aorist, middle, indicative, 3rd person plural - they asked for themselves
• *Pilaton*: accusative, masculine, singular - proper name
• *anairethēnai*: aorist, passive, infinitive - to be put to death

Word Meanings

• *mēdemian*: not one/none/no
• *aitian*: cause/reason/charge/ground
• *thanatou*: of death/worthy of death
• *heurontes*: having found/having discovered
• *ētēsanto*: they asked/they requested/they demanded
• *anairethēnai*: to be put to death/to be executed/to be slain

Referenced Verses

• Matt 27:22-25 : 22 Pilate said to them, "What then shall I do to Jesus, who is called Christ?" They all said to him, "Let him be crucified!" 23 But the governor said, "Why? What evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, saying, "Let him be crucified!" 24 So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it." 25 All the people answered, "May his blood be on us, and on our children!"
• Mark 15:13-15 : 13 They cried out again, "Crucify him!" 14 Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!" 15 Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.
• Luke 23:4-5 : 4 Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, "I find no basis for a charge against this man." 5 But they insisted, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place."
• Luke 23:14-16 : 14 and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and see, I have examined him before you, and found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him. 15 Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him. 16 I will therefore chastise him and release him."
• Luke 23:21-25 : 21 but they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify him!" 22 He said to them the third time, "Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him." 23 But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed. 24 Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done. 25 He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.
• John 18:38 : 38 Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, "I find no basis for a charge against him.
• John 19:4 : 4 Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, "Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him."
• John 19:12-16 : 12 At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!" 13 When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called "The Pavement," but in Hebrew, "Gabbatha." 14 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!" 15 They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!" 16 So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.
• Acts 3:13-14 : 13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him. 14 But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
• Matt 27:19 : 19 While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him."