Matthew 27:65

And Pilate said to them, Ye have a watch: go, secure it as well as ye know how.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can.

In Context

64Command therefore that the sepulchre be secured until the third day, lest his disciples should come and steal him away, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead; and the last error shall be worse than the first.

66And they went and secured the sepulchre, having sealed the stone, with the watch [besides].

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Cross References

Psalms 76:10For the fury of man shall praise thee; the remainder of fury wilt thou gird on thyself.

Matthew 27:66And they went and secured the sepulchre, having sealed the stone, with the watch [besides].

Matthew Henry on Matthew 27:58-66

The Burial of Christ. 57 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathæa, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple: 58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. 59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. 61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting… Read the whole commentary →

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