Matthew 27:65

Pilate [Armed with javelin] said to them, “You have a guard. Go, make it as secure as you 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

64Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, ‘He is risen from the dead;’ and the last sin ·abstractly deceive, straying from orthodox beliefs· will be worse than the first.”

66So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone.

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Cross References

Psalms 76:10Surely the wrath of man yadah ·extend hands in thankful praise· to you. 2 The survivors of your wrath are restrained. 1

Matthew 27:66So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure, sealing 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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