Matthew 27:64

Webster's Bible (1833)

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."

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  • Matt 28:13 : 13 saying, "Say that his disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
  • Matt 12:45 : 45 Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation."

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  • Matt 27:62-63
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    62Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,

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

  • Matt 27:65-66
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    65Pilate said to them, "You have a guard. Go, make it as secure as you can."

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

  • Matt 28:11-14
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    11Now while they were going, behold, some of the guards came into the city, and told the chief priests all the things that had happened.

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

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

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

  • Luke 24:5-7
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    5Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?

    6He isn't here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee,

    7saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again?"

  • Matt 27:60
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    60and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed.

  • Mark 16:2-8
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    2Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.

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

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

    5Entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were amazed.

    6He 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!

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

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

  • Matt 28:4-8
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    4For fear of him, the guards shook, and became like dead men.

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

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

    7Go 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."

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

  • Matt 28:1-2
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    1Now 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.

    2Behold, 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.

  • John 20:1-2
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    1Now 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.

    2Therefore 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!"

  • John 20:9
    72%

    9For as yet they didn't know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

  • Luke 24:1-2
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    1But 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.

    2They found the stone rolled away from the tomb.

  • Luke 24:21-24
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    71%

    21But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.

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

    23and when they didn't find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.

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

  • John 2:22
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    22When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

  • John 19:38
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    38After 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.

  • Luke 23:53-54
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    53He 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.

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

  • Mark 14:41-42
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    41He came the third time, and said to them, "Sleep on now, and take your rest. It is enough. The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

    42Arise, let us be going. Behold, he who betrays me is at hand."

  • 1 Cor 15:4
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    4that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

  • Acts 13:29-30
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    29When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid 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 said to them, "The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again."

  • Matt 26:45
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    45Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, "Sleep on now, and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

  • Matt 20:19
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    19and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up."

  • Luke 24:46
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    46He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

  • Luke 24:9
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    9returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven, and to all the rest.

  • Mark 9:10
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    10They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the "rising from the dead" meant.