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MATTHEW 28:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 28:10Matt 28:12
“Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done.”
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.

Church Fathers on Matthew 28:11

Of the signs which were shewn around Christ, some were common to the whole world, as the darkness; some peculiar to the watch, as the wonderful apparition of Angels, and the earthquake, which were wrought for the soldiers' sake, that they might be stunned with amazement, and bear testimony to the truth. For when truth is proclaimed by its adversaries, it adds to its brightness.

Chrysostom · 4th century · Hom. xc

Simple minds, and unlearned country-folk, often make manifest without guile the truth of a matter, as the thing is; but on the other hand, a crafty wickedness studies how to recommend falsehood by glosing words.

Rabanus Maurus · 9th century

Thus the Chief Priests, who ought to have been by this turned to penitence, and to seek Jesus risen, persevere in their wickedness, and convert the money which was given for the use of the Temple to the purchase of a lie, as before they had given thirty pieces of silver to the traitor Judas.

Jerome · 4th century
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