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63 saying, “Sir, we remembered that that deceiver said while still alive, ‘I am arising after three days’. 64 Therefore, give-orders that the burial-place be made-secure until the third day, so that His disciples, having come, might not at any time steal Him and say to the people, ‘He arose from the dead’, and the last deception will be worse than the first”. 65 Pilate said to them, “Have[a] a guard[b]. Go, make it secure as you know-how”.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 27:65 Or, You have. This could be a command or a statement. Pilate grants their request.
  2. Matthew 27:65 This is a transliterated Latin word referring to a detachment of Roman soldiers. It is only used here in v 65-66, and in 28:11.

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