Matthew 27:66
So they went and made the sepulchre safe, sealing the stone, and setting a guard to watch it.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
In Context
65But Pilate said to them, Ye have a guard of your own, go and make it as secure as ye will.
Cross References
Matthew 27:60and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had had cut out in the rock; and when he had rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, he went away:
Matthew 28:11Now while they were going, behold some of the guard came into the city, and told the chief priests all that had happened:
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 →