Matthew 27:65

Pilate said to them, “You have a guard of soldiers. Go and make it 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

64Therefore command that the tomb be secured until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, steal him away, and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead.’ This last deception would be worse than the first.”

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

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Matthew 27:66So they went and secured the tomb by sealing the stone and posting the guard of soldiers.

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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