Matthew 28:13 Parallel Translations

and told them to say that Jesus' disciples had come at night and had stolen his body while they were sleeping.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

ASV:

saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

BBE:

Say, His disciples came by night and took him away secretly while we were sleeping.

DBY:

saying, Say that his disciples coming by night stole him while we were sleeping.

ERV:

saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

WEY:

telling them to say, "His disciples came during the night and stole his body while we were asleep."

WBS:

Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

WEB:

saying, "Say that his disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

YLT:

saying, 'Say ye, that his disciples having come by night, stole him -- we being asleep;

Matthew 28:13 Cross References

XREF:

Matthew 28:12 And when they had assembled with the elders and consulted together, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

Matthew 28:14 "And if this should come to the governor's ears, we will win him over and keep you out of trouble." (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

28:13 His disciples came by night, etc. The improbability of this story is easily seen: (1) The soldiers would not dare to go to sleep on guard. It was death. (2) If they had gone to sleep they could testify nothing of what was done while asleep. Their testimony of what occurred then would be worthless. (3) The disciples did not expect a resurrection and would hardly believe it when it occurred. (4) They had shown themselves cowards and would not have dared to take his body away. (5) Had they dared, had the Roman soldiers slept, they could not have removed the stone and carried off the body without detection. It was a night lighted with the full moon and all the environs of Jerusalem were crowded with people attending the passover.

WES:

28:13 Say, his disciples came by night, and stole him while we slept - Is it possible, that any man of sense should digest this poor, shallow inconsistency? If ye were awake, why did you let the disciples steal him? If asleep, how do you know they did?

MHC:

28:11-15 What wickedness is it which men will not be brought to by the love of money! Here was large money given to the soldiers for advancing that which they knew to be a lie, yet many grudge a little money for advancing what they know to be the truth. Let us never starve a good cause, when we see bad ones so liberally supported. The priests undertook to secure them from the sword of Pilate, but could not secure these soldiers from the sword of God's justice, which hangs over the heads of those that love and make a lie. Those men promise more than they can perform, who undertake to save a man harmless in doing a wilful sin. But this falsehood disproved itself. Had the soldiers been all asleep, they could not have known what passed. If any had been awake, they would have roused the others and prevented the removal; and certainly if they had been asleep, they never would have dared to confess it; while the Jewish rulers would have been the first to call for their punishment. Again, had there been any truth in the report, the rulers would have prosecuted the apostles with severity for it. The whole shows that the story was entirely false. And we must not charge such things to the weakness of the understanding, but to the wickedness of the heart. God left them to expose their own course. The great argument to prove Christ to be the Son of God, is his resurrection; and none could have more convincing proofs of the truth of that than these soldiers; yet they took bribes to hinder others from believing. The plainest evidence will not affect men, without the work of the Holy Spirit.

CONC:

Asleep Body Disciples During Saying Secretly Sleeping Slept Stole Telling

Asleep Body Disciples His Night Secretly Sleeping Slept Stole Telling

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