“While they were going, behold, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests all that had taken place.”
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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Matthew 28:11
“While they were going, behold, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests all that had taken place.”
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.
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.