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Pilate Sets a Guard

62 On the next day, which followed the Day of Preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees gathered together to Pilate,
63 saying, “Sir, we remember, while He was still alive, how that deceiver said, a‘After three days I will rise.’  
64 Therefore command that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest His disciples come1 by night and steal Him away, and say to the people, ‘He has risen from the dead.’ So the last deception will be worse than the first.”  
65 Pilate said to them, “You have a guard; go your way, make it as secure as you know how.”
66 So they went and made the tomb secure, asealing the stone and setting the guard. 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Matthew 27:64

Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure—by a Roman guard.

until the third day—after which, if He still lay in the grave, the imposture of His claims would be manifest to all.

and say unto the people, he is risen from the dead—Did they really fear this?

so the last error shall be worse than the first—the imposture of His pretended resurrection worse than that of His pretended Messiahship.




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