Matthew 27:65

“You have a guard,” Pilate said. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.”

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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

64So give the order that the tomb be secured until the third day. Otherwise, His disciples may come by night and steal Him away and tell the people He has risen from the dead. And this last deception would be worse than the first.”

66So they went and secured the tomb by sealing the stone and posting the guard.

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Cross References

Psalms 76:10Even the wrath of man shall praise You; with the survivors of wrath You will clothe Yourself.

Matthew 27:66So they went and secured the tomb by sealing the stone and posting 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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