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Matthew 28

Matthew 28:15

The Report of the Guards · Matthew 28:11–15
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Translations

Modern
So the guards took the money and did as they were instructed. And this account has been circulated among the Jews to this very day.
Traditional
So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.
Literal
And having taken the pieces of silver, they did as they were instructed. And this report was spread abroad among the Jews until the present day.
Latin
At illi, accepta pecunia, fecerunt sicut erant edocti. Et divulgatum est verbum istud apud Judæos, usque in hodiernum diem.

Original

Greek
English
So the guards took the money and did as they were instructed. And this account has been circulated among the Jews to this very day.

Notes

Matthew 28:15

And this account has been circulated among the Jews to this very day: Around AD 165, the early church father Justin Martyr wrote to the Jews of his time. He wrote, “You have sent . . . men throughout all the world to proclaim, ‘A godless and lawless heresy has sprung from one Jesus, a Galilean deceiver, whom we crucified, but his disciples stole him by night from the tomb . . . and now [the disciples] deceive men by asserting that he has risen from the dead and ascended into heaven’” (Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho 108).

This false information probably increased after the disciples began preaching about the resurrection of Jesus (see Acts 2:22–36).

Events

People

Judah: Israelite tribe, kingdom, and province

Glossary

Apostle, Apostleship Gospel of Matthew

Topics

Bribery: Soldiers Bribed to Declare That the Disciples Stole the Body of Jesus Falsehood: The Roman Soldiers, Who Said the Disciples Stole the Body of Jesus Jesus, the Christ: Arises from the Dead (Just Outside Jerusalem) Money: Silver Used As Soldiers: Guard the Gravesite of Jesus The Resurrection of Christ was Attested by His Enemies Witness: Corrupted by Money