Matthew 27:65

World English Bible (2000)

Pilate said to them, "You have a guard. Go, make it as secure as you can."

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 27:66 : 66 So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone.
  • Matt 28:11-15 : 11 Now while they were going, behold, some of the guards came into the city, and told the chief priests all the things that had happened. 12 When they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave a large amount of silver to the soldiers, 13 saying, "Say that his disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept. 14 If this comes to the governor's ears, we will persuade him and make you free of worry." 15 So they took the money and did as they were told. This saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continues until this day.
  • Ps 76:10 : 10 Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
  • Prov 21:30 : 30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

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  • Matt 27:66
    89%

    66 So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone.

  • Matt 27:60-64
    5 verses
    82%

    60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed.

    61 Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb.

    62 Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,

    63 saying, "Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: 'After three days I will rise again.'

    64 Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, 'He is risen from the dead;' and the last deception will be worse than the first."

  • Matt 28:11-14
    4 verses
    73%

    11 Now while they were going, behold, some of the guards came into the city, and told the chief priests all the things that had happened.

    12 When they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave a large amount of silver to the soldiers,

    13 saying, "Say that his disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

    14 If this comes to the governor's ears, we will persuade him and make you free of worry."

  • Mark 16:6-8
    3 verses
    71%

    6 He said to them, "Don't be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him!

    7 But go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.'"

    8 They went out, and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them. They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid.

  • Mark 16:2-4
    3 verses
    70%

    2 Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.

    3 They were saying among themselves, "Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?"

    4 for it was very big. Looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back.

  • Matt 28:4-8
    5 verses
    70%

    4 For fear of him, the guards shook, and became like dead men.

    5 The angel answered the women, "Don't be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who has been crucified.

    6 He is not here, for he has risen, just like he said. Come, see the place where the Lord was lying.

    7 Go quickly and tell his disciples, 'He has risen from the dead, and behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there you will see him.' Behold, I have told you."

    8 They departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word.

  • Matt 27:36
    69%

    36 and they sat and watched him there.

  • Mark 15:44-46
    3 verses
    68%

    44 Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.

    45 When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.

    46 He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

  • John 19:38
    68%

    38 After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus' body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body.

  • Matt 27:2
    67%

    2 and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

  • Luke 24:5
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    5 Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?

  • Matt 28:1-2
    2 verses
    67%

    1 Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.

    2 Behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from the sky, and came and rolled away the stone from the door, and sat on it.

  • Mark 13:37
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    37 What I tell you, I tell all: Watch."

  • John 19:22
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    22 Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."

  • Matt 27:58
    67%

    58 This man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given up.

  • Luke 24:1-2
    2 verses
    66%

    1 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.

    2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb.

  • John 19:31
    66%

    31 Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn't remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

  • Mark 15:1
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    1 Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

  • Luke 23:53-56
    4 verses
    66%

    53 He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid.

    54 It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near.

    55 The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid.

    56 They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

  • John 19:42
    66%

    42 Then because of the Jews' Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.

  • John 20:1-2
    2 verses
    66%

    1 Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.

    2 Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have laid him!"

  • Luke 24:24
    66%

    24 Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they didn't see him."

  • Luke 24:22
    66%

    22 Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived early at the tomb;

  • Luke 23:24
    66%

    24 Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done.

  • Acts 13:29
    66%

    29 When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.

  • John 11:57
    66%

    57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.

  • Mark 14:37
    66%

    37 He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn't you watch one hour?