Matthew 27:65 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶⁵Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can.

Matthew 27:65 —

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Matthew 27:66
So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
Matthew 28:11-15
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. …
Psalms 76:10
Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
Proverbs 21:30
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 57-66)

We have here an account of Christ’s burial, and the manner and circumstances of it, concerning which observe, 1. The kindness and good will of his friends that laid him in the grave. 2. The malice and ill will of his enemies that were very solicitous to keep him there. I. His friends gave him a decent burial. Observe, 1. In general, that Jesus Christ was buried; when his precious soul was gone to…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 65)

65. Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch--The guards had already acted under orders of the Sanhedrim, with Pilate’s consent; but probably they were not clear about employing them as a night watch without Pilate’s express authority. go your way, make it as sure as ye can--as ye know how, or in the way ye deem securest. Though there may be no irony in this speech, it evidently insinuated that if t…