Matthew 27:62-64

New English Translation

The Guard at the Tomb

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