While the women are running to tell the disciples, the guards go into the city to report to the chief priests what had happened. The two streams of witnesses — the faithful women and the terrified soldiers — run in opposite directions: the women toward the disciples with life-changing news, the soldiers toward the religious authorities with news they will be paid to suppress. The guards report everything: they were present for the earthquake, the angel, the rolled stone, their own paralysis. The religious authorities have the most comprehensive eyewitness account of the events surrounding the resurrection — from men who had no reason to fabricate a story favorable to Jesus — and they choose suppression over investigation.

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