◄ Matthew 27:65 ►
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Good News Translation
"Take a guard," Pilate told them; "go and make the tomb as secure as you can."

New Revised Standard Version
Pilate said to them, “You have a guard of soldiers; go, make it as secure as you can.”

Contemporary English Version
Pilate said to them, "All right, take some of your soldiers and guard the tomb as well as you know how."

New American Bible
Pilate said to them, “The guard is yours; go secure it as best you can.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Pilate saith to them: You have a guard. Go, guard it as you know.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Pilate saith to them: You have a guard. Go, guard it as you know.

make.

Matthew 28:11-15 Who when they were departed, behold, some of the guards came into the city and told the chief priests all things that had been done. . . .

Psalm 76:10 For the thought of man shall give praise to thee: and the remainders of the thought shall keep holiday to thee.

Proverbs 21:30 There is no wisdom, there is no prudence, there is no counsel against the Lord.

Context
The Guards at the Tomb
…64Command therefore the sepulchre to be guarded until the third day: lest perhaps his disciples come and steal him away and say to the people: He is risen from the dead. And the last error shall be worse than the first. 65Pilate saith to them: You have a guard. Go, guard it as you know. 66And they departing, made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone and setting guards.…
Cross References
Matthew 27:64
Command therefore the sepulchre to be guarded until the third day: lest perhaps his disciples come and steal him away and say to the people: He is risen from the dead. And the last error shall be worse than the first.

Matthew 27:66
And they departing, made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone and setting guards.

Matthew 28:11
Who when they were departed, behold, some of the guards came into the city and told the chief priests all things that had been done.

Matthew 27:64
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