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Literal Standard Version

Luke 23:4

And Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitude, "I find no fault in this Man";

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jerusalem;   Jesus, the Christ;   Thompson Chain Reference - Faultless;   Faultlessness;   Pilate, Pontius;   Pontius Pilate;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Pilate;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Exhortation;   Humiliation of Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Pilate, Pontius;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Herod;   Jesus Christ;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jesus, Life and Ministry of;   Luke, Gospel of;   Pilate, Pontius;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gospels, Apocryphal;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Trial of Jesus;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Cross;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fault;   Pilate, Pontius;   Praetorium;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - New Testament;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Pilate then told the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no grounds for charging this man.”
King James Version (1611)
Then saide Pilate to the chiefe Priests, and to the people, I finde no fault in this man.
King James Version
Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man.
English Standard Version
Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, "I find no guilt in this man."
New American Standard Bible
But Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, "I find no grounds for charges in the case of this Man."
New Century Version
Pilate said to the leading priests and the people, "I find nothing against this man."
Amplified Bible
Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, "I find no guilt in this Man."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, "I find no guilt in this man."
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, "I find no guilt in this man."
Berean Standard Bible
Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, "I find no basis for a charge against this man."
Contemporary English Version
Pilate told the chief priests and the crowd, "I don't find him guilty of anything."
Complete Jewish Bible
Pilate said to the head cohanim and the crowds, "I find no ground for a charge against this man."
Darby Translation
And Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, I find no guilt in this man.
Easy-to-Read Version
Pilate said to the leading priests and the people, "I find nothing wrong with this man."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then sayd Pilate to the hie Priests, and to the people, I finde no fault in this man.
George Lamsa Translation
Then Pilate said to the high priests and the people, I cannot find any fault against this man.
Good News Translation
Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, "I find no reason to condemn this man."
Lexham English Bible
So Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, "I find no basis for an accusation against this man."
Literal Translation
And Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, I find nothing blameable in this man.
American Standard Version
And Pilate said unto the chief priests and the multitudes, I find no fault in this man.
Bible in Basic English
And Pilate said to the chief priests and the people, In my opinion this man has done no wrong.
Hebrew Names Version
Pilate said to the chief Kohanim and the multitudes, "I find no basis for a charge against this man."
International Standard Version
Then Pilate said to the high priests and crowds, "I do not find anything blameworthy in this man."1 Peter 2:22;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And Pilatos said to the chief priests and to the assembly, I find no occasion against this man.
Murdock Translation
And Pilate said to the chief priests and the company: I find no crime upon this man.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then saide Pilate to the hye priestes, and to the people: I finde no fault in this man.
English Revised Version
And Pilate said unto the chief priests and the multitudes, I find no fault in this man.
World English Bible
Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, "I find no basis for a charge against this man."
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And he answering him said, Thou sayest. Then said Pilate to the chief priests and the multitude, I find no fault in this man.
Weymouth's New Testament
Pilate said to the High Priests and to the crowd, "I can find no crime in this man."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Pilat seide to the princis of prestis, and to the puple, Y fynde no thing of cause in this man.
Update Bible Version
And Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, I find no fault in this man.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then said Pilate to the chief priests, and [to] the people, I find no fault in this man.
New English Translation
Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, "I find no basis for an accusation against this man."
New King James Version
So Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowd, "I find no fault in this Man."
New Living Translation
Pilate turned to the leading priests and to the crowd and said, "I find nothing wrong with this man!"
New Life Bible
Then Pilate said to the religious leaders and to the people, "I find nothing wrong in this Man."
New Revised Standard
Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, "I find no basis for an accusation against this man."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, Pilate, said unto the High-priests and the multitudes, Nothing, find I, worthy of blame, in this man.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Pilate said to the chief priests and to the multitudes: I find no cause in this man.
Revised Standard Version
And Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, "I find no crime in this man."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Then sayde Pylate to the hye prestes and to the people: I fynde noo faute in this man.
Young's Literal Translation
And Pilate said unto the chief priests, and the multitude, `I find no fault in this man;'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Pilate sayde vnto ye hye prestes and to the people: I fynde no cause in this man.
Mace New Testament (1729)
at last Pilate said to the chief priests, and to the people, I don't find any crime in this man.
THE MESSAGE
Pilate told the high priests and the accompanying crowd, "I find nothing wrong here. He seems harmless enough to me."
Simplified Cowboy Version
Pilate turned to the religious rioters and said, "This man has done nothing wrong."

Contextual Overview

1And having risen, the whole multitude of them led Him to Pilate, 2and began to accuse Him, saying, "We found this One perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying Himself to be Christ, a king." 3And Pilate questioned Him, saying, "You are the King of the Jews?" And He answering him, said, "You say [it]." 4And Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitude, "I find no fault in this Man";5and they were the more urgent, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea—having begun from Galilee—to this place." 6And Pilate having heard of Galilee, questioned if the Man is a Galilean, 7and having known that He is from the jurisdiction of Herod, he sent Him back to Herod, he also being in Jerusalem in those days. 8And Herod rejoiced exceedingly having seen Jesus, for he was wishing to see Him for a long [time], because of hearing many things about Him, and he was hoping to see some sign done by Him, 9and was questioning Him in many words, and He answered him nothing. 10And the chief priests and the scribes stood vehemently accusing Him,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I find: Luke 23:14, Luke 23:15, Matthew 27:19, Matthew 27:24, Mark 15:14, John 18:38, John 19:4-6, Hebrews 7:26, 1 Peter 1:19, 1 Peter 2:22, 1 Peter 3:18

Reciprocal: Psalms 22:16 - assembly John 18:33 - and said Acts 13:28 - General Acts 23:9 - We Acts 25:25 - committed Acts 26:31 - This man Revelation 14:5 - without

Cross-References

Genesis 3:19
by the sweat of your face you eat bread until your return to the ground, for you have been taken out of it, for dust you [are], and to dust you return."
Genesis 17:8
and I have given to you, and to your seed after you, the land of your sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a continuous possession, and I have become their God."
Genesis 23:12
And Abraham bows himself before the people of the land,
Genesis 23:13
and speaks to Ephron in the ears of the people of the land, saying, "Only—if you would hear me—I have given the money of the field—accept from me, and I bury my dead there."
Genesis 23:16
And Abraham listens to Ephron, and Abraham weighs to Ephron the silver which he has spoken of in the ears of the sons of Heth, four hundred silver shekels, passing with the merchant.
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob says to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojournings [are] one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings."
Genesis 49:30
in the cave which [is] in the field of Machpelah, which [is] on the front of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place;
Genesis 50:13
and his sons carry him away to the land of Canaan, and bury him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a burying-place, from Ephron the Hittite, on the front of Mamre.
Leviticus 25:23
And the land is not sold—to extinction, for the land [is] Mine, for you [are] sojourners and settlers with Me;
1 Chronicles 29:15
for we [are] sojourners and settlers before You, like all our fathers; our days on the land [are] as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said Pilate to the Chief priests, and to the people,.... Both to the sanhedrim, and to the mob that were gathered together about the governor's palace on this occasion; and who were standing without the judgment hall, into which they would not enter, lest they should be defiled, and be unfit to eat the passover: wherefore Pilate came out to them; and this was the second time of his coming out to them, when he said the following words,

John 18:28.

I find no fault in this man; no cause, or reason, why any punishment should be inflicted on him, and especially he be put to death; no crime that can be fastened on him, or accusation proved against him, or any thing that amounts to a charge of sedition: the man is an harmless and innocent man, that has done nothing against Caesar, or the government, and good of the nation; and therefore is not worthy of death, or of stripes, but should be discharged. This was Pilate's sense.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I find no fault - I see no evidence that he is guilty of what you charge him with. This was after Pilate had taken Jesus into the judgment-hall by himself and examined him “privately,” and had been satisfied in regard to the nature of his kingdom. See John 18:33-38. He was “then” satisfied that though he claimed to be “a king,” yet his kingdom was not of this world, and that “his” claims did not interfere with those of Caesar.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 23:4. I find no fault in this man. — According to John 18:36; John 18:38, Pilate did not say this till after our Lord had declared to him that his kingdom was not of this world; and probably not till after he had found, on examining witnesses, (Luke 23:14,) that all their evidence amounted to no proof, of his having set up himself for a temporal king. See Bishop PEARCE.


 
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