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65 “Use your own Temple police,” Pilate told them. “They can guard it safely enough.”

66 So they sealed the stone[a] and posted guards to protect it from intrusion.

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  1. Matthew 27:66 So they sealed the stone. This was done by stringing a cord across the rock, the cord being sealed at each end with clay.

65 “Take a guard,”(A) Pilate answered. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.” 66 So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal(B) on the stone(C) and posting the guard.(D)

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