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

I persecuted this Way even to the point of death, tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,

I found he was accused with reference to controversial questions about their law, but no charge against him deserved death or imprisonment.

and as they were leaving they said to one another, “This man is not doing anything deserving death or imprisonment.”

When they had heard my case, they wanted to release me, because there was no basis for a death sentence against me.

But God raised him up, having released him from the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held in its power.

But I found that he had done nothing that deserved death, and when he appealed to His Majesty the Emperor, I decided to send him.

If then I am in the wrong and have done anything that deserves death, I am not trying to escape dying, but if not one of their charges against me is true, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!”