Matthew 27:65

And Pilate said to them, “You have a guard, go away, make [it] secure—as you have known”;

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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

64command, then, the grave to be made secure until the third day, lest His disciples, having come by night, may steal Him away, and may say to the people, He rose from the dead, and the last deceit will be worse than the first.”

66and they, having gone, made the grave secure, having sealed the stone, together with the guard.

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Cross References

Psalms 76:10For the fierceness of man praises You, || You gird on the remnant of fierceness.

Matthew 27:66and they, having gone, made the grave secure, having sealed the stone, together with the guard.

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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