Matthew 27:65

“I'll give you a guard of soldiers,” Pilate told them. “Now go, and make it as secure as you possibly can.”

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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

64Give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. That way his disciples can't come and steal his body and tell people that he was raised from the dead, and the deception in the end will become worse than it was at first.”

66So they went and made the tomb secure, sealing the entrance stone and posting soldiers as guards.

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Cross References

Psalms 76:10Even human anger against you makes you look glorious, for you wear it alike a crown.

Matthew 27:66So they went and made the tomb secure, sealing the entrance stone and posting soldiers as guards.

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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