Matthew 27:65

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

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64Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.

66So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.

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Cross References

Psalms 76:10Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.

Matthew 27:66So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.

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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