Matthew 27:65

Pilate said to them, Ye have a watch: go, make it as secure as ye can.

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Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can.

In Context

64Command therefore that the sepulcher be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error will be worse than the first.

66So they went, and having sealed the stone, made the sepulcher secure with a watch.

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Cross References

Psalms 76:10Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath wilt thou restrain.

Matthew 27:66So they went, and having sealed the stone, made the sepulcher secure with a watch.

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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