Matthew 27:66
So they went, and set a watch (about) the sepulchre, and sealed the stone along with the guards.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
In Context
65Pilatos saith to them, Ye have guards; go, watch diligently, as ye know how.
Cross References
Matthew 27:60and laid it in a new house of burial of his own, which was hewn out in the rock. And they rolled a great stone, and heaved it against the door of the sepulchre, and went.
Matthew 28:11But while they went, there came certain from those guards into the city, and told the chief priests every thing that had been done.
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 →