40 Days: Resurrection to Ascension

Report Of The Guards

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Guards It’s a tale, too strange to tell With lightning, to the ground we fell An angel of God, he moved the stone We feared so much, our lives were done Priests A tale for sure, it has no fact You cannot share, we’ll make a pact A sum of riches, yours to spend Keep quiet or it will be your end Guards A mighty feat like this to view A fearful sight, we’re telling you A story that cannot be shared A truth that must be undeclared Priests But a mere fable, it is true No one will know, what you once knew Forevermore you must relate That this was false, that is your fate The followers came through the dark They took the body, left no mark This is the tale that you will tell Now go away, you’ve been paid well.

Commentary

While the women were on their way, some of the guards went into the city and reported to the chief priests everything that had happened. When the chief priests had met with the elders and devised a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money, telling them, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came during the night and stole him away while we were asleep.’ If this report gets to the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.” So the soldiers took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has been widely circulated among the Jews to this very day.