Matthew 27:65

Pilate said to them, Ye have the keeping (or Ye have the guarding of it); go ye, keep ye (watch over it) as (sure as) ye can.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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 thou, that the sepulchre be kept (or guarded) into the third day; lest his disciples come, and steal him, and say to the people, He hath risen from death [or He is risen from (the) dead]; and the last error shall be worse than the former (or and then the last lie shall be worse than the first lie).

66And they went forth, and kept (watch over) the sepulchre, marking [or sealing] the stone, with [the] keepers. (And so they went there, and kept watch over the tomb, and sealed the stone, with the guards.)

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Cross References

Psalms 76:10For the thought of man shall acknowledge to thee; and the remnants of thought/the leavings of thought shall make a feast day to thee. (For all their anger, people shall still praise thee; and they who be the remnants or who be the survivors shall make a feast day to thee.)

Matthew 27:66And they went forth, and kept (watch over) the sepulchre, marking [or sealing] the stone, with [the] keepers. (And so they went there, and kept watch over the tomb, and sealed the stone, with the guards.)

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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