Matthew 28:11
The Guards’ Report While they were going, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests everything that had happened.
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- Matt 27:65-66 : 65 Pilate said to them,“Take a guard of soldiers. Go and make it as secure as you can.” 66 So they went with the soldiers of the guard and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone.
- Matt 28:4 : 4 The guards were shaken and became like dead men because they were so afraid of him.
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12 After they had assembled with the elders and formed a plan, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,
13 telling them,“You are to say,‘His disciples came at night and stole his body while we were asleep.’
14 If this matter is heard before the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.”
- Matt 28:4-107 verses78%
4 The guards were shaken and became like dead men because they were so afraid of him.
5 But the angel said to the women,“Do not be afraid; I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.
6 He is not here, for he has been raised, just as he said. Come and see the place where he was lying.
7 Then 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!”
8 So they left the tomb quickly, with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples.
9 But Jesus met them, saying,“Greetings!” They came to him, held on to his feet and worshiped him.
10 Then Jesus said to them,“Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee. They will see me there.”
- Luke 24:8-92 verses78%
8 Then the women remembered his words,
9 and when they returned from the tomb they told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.
- Mark 16:6-83 verses77%
6 But 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.
7 But 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.”
8 Then 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 27:64-663 verses76%
64 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.”
65 Pilate said to them,“Take a guard of soldiers. Go and make it as secure as you can.”
66 So they went with the soldiers of the guard and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone.
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23 The Followers of Jesus Pray for Boldness When they were released, Peter and John went to their fellow believers and reported everything the high priests and the elders had said to them.
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16 The Great Commission So the eleven disciples went to Galilee to the mountain Jesus had designated.
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24 Now when the commander of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this report, they were greatly puzzled concerning it, wondering what this could be.
25 But someone came and reported to them,“Look! The men you put in prison are standing in the temple courts and teaching the people!”
- Matt 28:1-22 verses74%
1 The 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.
2 Suddenly there was a severe earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descending from heaven came and rolled away the stone and sat on it.
- Luke 24:22-243 verses74%
22 Furthermore, some women of our group amazed us. They were at the tomb early this morning,
23 and when they did not find his body, they came back and said they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.
24 Then 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.”
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5 The 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?
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10 She went out and told those who were with him, while they were mourning and weeping.
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53 (They came out of the tombs after his resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.)
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46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and reported to them what Jesus had done.
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22 But the officers who came for them did not find them in the prison, so they returned and reported,
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33 So they got up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem. They found the eleven and those with them gathered together
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62 The Guard at the Tomb The next day(which is after the day of preparation) the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled before Pilate
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1 The 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.
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27 The Authority of Jesus They came again to Jerusalem. While Jesus was walking in the temple courts, the chief priests, the experts in the law, and the elders came up to him
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13 They went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them.
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12 But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. He bent down and saw only the strips of linen cloth; then he went home, wondering what had happened.
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12 Then John’s disciples came and took the body and buried it and went and told Jesus.
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34 When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they ran off and spread the news in the town and countryside.
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10 Jesus’ Appearance to Mary Magdalene So the disciples went back to their homes.
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18 Mary Magdalene came and informed the disciples,“I have seen the Lord!” And she told them what Jesus had said to her.
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53 Condemned by the Sanhedrin Then they led Jesus to the high priest, and all the chief priests and elders and experts in the law came together.
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4 But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled back.
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33 The herdsmen ran off, went into the town, and told everything that had happened to the demon-possessed men.
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27 Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence and gathered the whole cohort around him.
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18 At daybreak there was great consternation among the soldiers over what had become of Peter.
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2 So 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!”
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57 (Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)