Matthew 27:65

And Pilate said to them, 'Ye have a watch, go away, make secure — as ye have known;'

Young's Literal Translation

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

64command, then, the sepulchre to be made secure till the third day, lest his disciples, having come by night, may steal him away, and may say to the people, He rose from the dead, and the last deceit shall be worse than the first.'

66and they, having gone, did make the sepulchre secure, having sealed the stone, together with the watch.

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Cross References

Psalms 76:10For the fierceness of man praiseth Thee, The remnant of fierceness Thou girdest on.

Matthew 27:66and they, having gone, did make the sepulchre secure, having sealed the stone, together with the 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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