Matthew 27:65

Pilate said to them, You have a guard, go make the kever as secure as you know how.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

64Therefore, give orders for the kever to be made secure until the Yom HaShlishi (the Third Day), lest his talmidim come and steal him away and say to the people, He has stood up alive from the mesim. And the last deception will be worse than the first.

66And they went and made the kever secure, and, along with the guard, they set a seal on the stone.

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Cross References

Psalms 76:10When Elohim arose to mishpat, 1 to save all the meek of Eretz. 1 Selah 1

Matthew 27:66And they went and made the kever secure, and, along with the guard, they set a seal on 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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