Matthew 28:15

Verse

So the guards took the money and did as they were instructed. And this account has been circulated among the Jews to this very day.

American Standard Version (1901)

So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continueth until this day.

Bible in Basic English

So they took the money, and did as they had been ordered: and this account has been current among the Jews till the present time.

Douay-Rheims 1899

So they taking the money, did as they were taught: and this word was spread abroad among the Jews even unto this day.

Free Bible Version

So the soldiers took the money and did what they were told. This story has been spread among the Jewish people to this very day.

Geneva Bible 1599

So they tooke the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is noysed among the Iewes vnto this day.

King James (Authorized) Version

So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.

One Unity Resource Bible

So they took the money and did as they were told. This saying was spread abroad among the Jews [Praisers], and continues until today.

Translation for Translators

So the soldiers took the money and did as they were told {as the chief priests and elders told them}. And this story has been told {People have told this story} among the Jews to the very day that I am writing this.

Unlocked Literal Bible

So the soldiers took the money and did as they had been instructed. This report spread widely among the Jews and continues even today.

Noah Webster Bible

So they took the money, and did as they were instructed: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.

World English Bible

So they took the money and did as they were told. This saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continues until today.

Young's Literal Translation

And they, having received the money, did as they were taught, and this account was spread abroad among Jews till this day.

Context

The Report of the Guards

¹⁴If this report reaches the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.”¹⁵So the guards took the money and did as they were instructed. And this account has been circulated among the Jews to this very day.

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Summary

This verse recounts the response of the chief priests and elders after the guards reported the resurrection of Jesus. They were bribed to spread the false narrative that Jesus' body was stolen by His disciples while they were asleep. This deception aimed to discredit the truth of Jesus' resurrection and prevent people from believing in Him as the Messiah. The religious leaders' actions reveal their hardness of heart and refusal to accept the miraculous event that validated Jesus' claims.

Commentary

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
John Gill
Tyndale

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

So they took the money, and did as they were taught--thus consenting to brand themselves with infamy. and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day--to the date of the publication of this Gospel. The wonder is that so clumsy and incredible a story lasted so long. But those who are resolved not to come to the light will catch at straws. JUSTIN MARTYR, who flourished about A.D. 170, says, in his Dialogue with Trypho the Jew, that the Jews dispersed the story by means of special messengers sent to every country.

John Gill Bible Commentary

So they took the money, and did as they were taught,.... Though they had been just now in the greatest fright and consternation imaginable, at the sight of the angel, and knew what was done; yet being men of no religion or conscience, were tempted with the money, and took it, and reported every where what had been put into their mouths by the chief priests and elders. And this saying is commonly reported among the Jews unto this day; to the time that Matthew wrote this Gospel; which according to the subscriptions to a most ancient copy of Beza's, and the Syriac and Arabic versions of De Dieu, was in the "eighth" year after our Lord's ascension; though others make it to be the "ninth"; and others the "fifteenth". The sense is, not that this narrative the evangelist gives, that the sanhedrim bribed the soldiers to give out such a lying story, was known to the Jews, and commonly reported by them; though some take this to be the sense; but that it was reported and believed among the Jews in common, to that time, that the disciples of Christ did really come in the night, and steal away the body of Christ, while the watch slept: to such judicial blindness, and hardness of heart, were they given up, as to believe a lie, and which had no appearance of truth in it. They have since contrived a more monstrous and ridiculous story than this. They say (e), that Judas, seeing where the body was laid, and the disciples sitting upon the tomb, and mourning over it, in the middle of the night, took his opportunity to take away the body, and buried it in his own garden, under a current of water; having first turned the water another way, and then put it in the same course as before; and which he afterwards discovered to the Jews; and the body was taken up and exposed, and insulted in the most ignominious manner: but alas! Judas had hanged himself some days before; and had he been living, would not have been capable of doing what they ascribe unto him. (e) Toldos Jesu, p. 18, 19, 21.

Matthew 28:15

The Report of the Guards

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Berean Standard Bible

So the guards took the money and did as they were instructed. And this account has been circulated among the Jews to this very day.

American Standard Version (1901)

So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continueth until this day.

Bible in Basic English

So they took the money, and did as they had been ordered: and this account has been current among the Jews till the present time.

Douay-Rheims 1899

So they taking the money, did as they were taught: and this word was spread abroad among the Jews even unto this day.

Free Bible Version

So the soldiers took the money and did what they were told. This story has been spread among the Jewish people to this very day.

Geneva Bible 1599

So they tooke the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is noysed among the Iewes vnto this day.

King James (Authorized) Version

So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.

One Unity Resource Bible

So they took the money and did as they were told. This saying was spread abroad among the Jews [Praisers], and continues until today.

Translation for Translators

Unlocked Literal Bible

So the soldiers took the money and did as they had been instructed. This report spread widely among the Jews and continues even today.

Noah Webster Bible

So they took the money, and did as they were instructed: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.

World English Bible

So they took the money and did as they were told. This saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continues until today.

Young's Literal Translation

And they, having received the money, did as they were taught, and this account was spread abroad among Jews till this day.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
John Gill
Tyndale

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

John Gill Bible Commentary

Matthew 28:15

Verse

Context

The Report of the Guards

Sermons

Summary

Commentary

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

John Gill Bible Commentary

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Matthew 28:15

The Report of the Guards

Christ Is All - in Scripture

Compared View of the First Three Gospels, Etc.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

John Gill Bible Commentary

Tyndale Open Study Notes