1. Acts 13:28 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What did the Jerusalem Jews ask of Pilate?

Acts 13:28 (ESV)

28 And though they found in him no guilt worthy of death, they asked Pilate to have him executed.

The Jewish leadership in Jerusalem asked the Roman governor Pilate to execute Jesus, and they did so even though it had been publicly demonstrated that he was not guilty of any crime (see Luke 23:1–5; Luke 23:21).1