Matthew 27:64

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

So give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body and say to the people,‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

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  • Matt 28:13 : 13 telling them,“You are to say,‘His disciples came at night and stole his body while we were asleep.’
  • Matt 12:45 : 45 Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so the last state of that person is worse than the first. It will be that way for this evil generation as well!”

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  • Matt 27:62-63
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    62The Guard at the Tomb The next day(which is after the day of preparation) the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled before Pilate

    63and said,“Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive he said,‘After three days I will rise again.’

  • Matt 27:65-66
    2 verses
    82%

    65Pilate said to them,“Take a guard of soldiers. Go and make it as secure as you can.”

    66So they went with the soldiers of the guard and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone.

  • Matt 28:11-14
    4 verses
    80%

    11The Guards’ Report While they were going, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests everything that had happened.

    12After they had assembled with the elders and formed a plan, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

    13telling them,“You are to say,‘His disciples came at night and stole his body while we were asleep.’

    14If this matter is heard before the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.”

  • Luke 24:5-7
    3 verses
    74%

    5The women were terribly frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them,“Why do you look for the living among the dead?

    6He is not here, but has been raised! Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee,

    7that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.”

  • Matt 27:60
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    60and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut in the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance of the tomb and went away.

  • Mark 16:2-8
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    74%

    2And very early on the first day of the week, at sunrise, they went to the tomb.

    3They had been asking each other,“Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?”

    4But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled back.

    5Then as they went into the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side; and they were alarmed.

    6But he said to them,“Do not be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has been raised! He is not here. Look, there is the place where they laid him.

    7But go, tell his disciples, even Peter, that he is going ahead of you into Galilee. You will see him there, just as he told you.”

    8Then they went out and ran from the tomb, for terror and bewilderment had seized them. And they said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.

  • Matt 28:4-8
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    73%

    4The guards were shaken and became like dead men because they were so afraid of him.

    5But the angel said to the women,“Do not be afraid; I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.

    6He is not here, for he has been raised, just as he said. Come and see the place where he was lying.

    7Then go quickly and tell his disciples,‘He has been raised from the dead. He is going ahead of you into Galilee. You will see him there.’ Listen, I have told you!”

    8So they left the tomb quickly, with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples.

  • Matt 28:1-2
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    1The Resurrection Now after the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

    2Suddenly there was a severe earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descending from heaven came and rolled away the stone and sat on it.

  • John 20:1-2
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    72%

    1The Resurrection Now very early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been moved away from the entrance.

    2So she went running to Simon Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus loved and told them,“They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”

  • John 20:9
    72%

    9(For they did not yet understand the scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead.)

  • Luke 24:1-2
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    1The Resurrection Now on the first day of the week, at early dawn, the women went to the tomb, taking the aromatic spices they had prepared.

    2They found that the stone had been rolled away from the tomb,

  • Luke 24:21-24
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    71%

    21But we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. Not only this, but it is now the third day since these things happened.

    22Furthermore, some women of our group amazed us. They were at the tomb early this morning,

    23and when they did not find his body, they came back and said they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.

    24Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see him.”

  • John 2:22
    71%

    22So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.

  • John 19:38
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    38Jesus’ Burial After this, Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus(but secretly, because he feared the Jewish leaders), asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he went and took the body away.

  • Luke 23:53-54
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    70%

    53Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut out of the rock, where no one had yet been buried.

    54It was the day of preparation and the Sabbath was beginning.

  • Mark 14:41-42
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    70%

    41He came a third time and said to them,“Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough of that! The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

    42Get up, let us go. Look! My betrayer is approaching!”

  • 1 Cor 15:4
    70%

    4and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures,

  • Acts 13:29-30
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    29When they had accomplished everything that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and placed him in a tomb.

    30But God raised him from the dead,

  • Mark 9:31
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    31for he was teaching his disciples and telling them,“The Son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after three days he will rise.”

  • Matt 26:45
    69%

    45Then he came to the disciples and said to them,“Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour is approaching, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

  • Matt 20:19
    69%

    19and will turn him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged severely and crucified. Yet on the third day, he will be raised.”

  • Luke 24:46
    69%

    46and said to them,“Thus it stands written that the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day,

  • Luke 24:9
    69%

    9and when they returned from the tomb they told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.

  • Mark 9:10
    69%

    10They kept this statement to themselves, discussing what this rising from the dead meant.