Matthew 27:65

So Pilate said to them, “You have a guard; go make it as secure as you can!”

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

In Context

64Therefore command that the grave be made secure until the third day, lest His disciples come by night and steal Him and say to the people, ‘He was raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

66So they went and secured the grave with the guard, having sealed the stone.

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Matthew 27:66So they went and secured the grave with the guard, having sealed the stone.

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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