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andrewcriddle · 10-11-2007, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by JEST2ASK

I actually have several questions and no answers.

1 - Who said there were guards at the Tomb?
Was it perhaps Mark (often thought to be the earliest Gospel)?
Was it written in Luke (who says he wrote his account after much reasearch and also credited with writting Acts)?
Was it John (the latest and often called the most developed Gospel)?
Perhaps the detail of the guards appears in the writtings of Paul?

2 - Where ther guards set by the Romans?

3 - Were the guards set by the Jewish leaders?

Just something to think about before looking for the "logic" behind the actions of (as someone suggested) characters in a story.

The account is found only in Matthew.

The guards are set by the Jewish leaders in collaboration with Pilate.

End of Matthew 27

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Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,

Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.

Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.

Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can.

So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.

Andrew Criddle

John Kesler · 10-11-2007, 11:34 AM

The Gospel of Peter has the guards-at-the-tomb story, too:

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8 But the scribes and Pharisees and elders being gathered together one with another, when they heard that all the people murmured and beat their breasts saying, If by his death these most mighty signs have come to pass, see how righteous he is,--the eiders were afraid and came to Pilate, beseeching him and saying, Give us soldiers, that we may guard his sepulchre for three days, lest his disciples come and steal him away, and the people suppose that he is risen from the dead and do us evil. And Pilate gave them Petronius the centurion with soldiers to guard the tomb. And with them came elders and scribes to the sepulchre, and having rolled a great stone together with the centurion and the soldiers, they all together who were there set it at the door of the sepulchre; and they affixed seven seals, and they pitched a tent there and guarded it. And early in the morning as the sabbath. was drawing on, there came a multitude from Jerusalem and the region round about, that they might see the sepulchre that was sealed.

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