Matthew 28:15

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

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WEBBE

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

BSB

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.

KJV

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

ASV

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.

BBE

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.

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Οἱ Hoi (the) G3588 δὲ de And G1161 λαβόντες labontes having taken G2983 τὰ ta the G3588 ἀργύρια arguria money G694 ἐποίησαν epoiēsan they did G4160 ὡς hōs as G5613 ἐδιδάχθησαν edidachthēsan they were instructed G1321 καὶ kai And G2532 διεφημίσθη diephēmisthē is spread abroad G1310 ὁ ho (the) G3588 λόγος logos report G3056 οὗτος houtos this G3778 παρὰ para among [the] G3844 Ἰουδαίοις Ioudaiois Jews G2453 μέχρι mechri until G3360 τῆς tēs the G3588 σήμερον sēmeron present G4594 ἡμέρας.¶ hēmeras day G2250

The early church

See how all are corrupted; Pilate persuaded; the people stirred up; the soldiers bribed; as it follows, And they look the money, and did as they were instructed. If money prevailed with a disciple so far as to make him become the betrayer of his Master, what wonder that the soldiers are overcome by it.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
"And this saying is commonly reported," it is said, "until this day." Seest thou again the disciples' love of truth, how they are not ashamed of saying even this, that such a report prevailed against them.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on Matthew
(ubi sup.) Among the Jews, not among the Christians; what in Judæa the Jew concealed by his gold, is by faith blazed abroad throughout the world.
Peter Chrysologus · d. 450Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
But as the guilt of His blood, which they imprecated upon themselves and their children, presses them down with a heavy weight of sin, so the purchase of the lie, by which they deny the truth of the Resurrection, charges this guilt upon them for ever; as it follows, And this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.
Rabanus Maurus · d. 856Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
The concealment of the Resurrection, and the false allegation of theft, is purchased by money; because by the honour of this world, which consists in money and desire, Christ's glory is denied.
Hilary of Poitiers · d. 367Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 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.

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