Matius 27:62-64

The Guard at the Tomb

27:62 The ¹  next day (which is after the day of preparation) the chief priests and the Pharisees ²  assembled before Pilate 27:63 and said, “Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive he said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ 27:64 So give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body ³  and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

[27:62]  ¹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[27:62]  ² sn See the note on Pharisees in 3:7.

[27:64]  ³ tn Grk “him.”