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Command, therefore to guard the sepulchre; until the third day; lest his disciples come and steal him away by night, and say to the people that he hath risen from the dead; and the last delusion be worse than the first.

Pilate said to them: Ye have soldiers: go and guard it, as ye know how.

And they went and set a guard to the sepulchre, and sealed the stone.

He seized him and cast him into prison, and delivered him to sixteen soldiers, who were to guard him; that he might, after the passover, deliver him up to the people of the Jews.

17 Ye therefore, my beloved, as ye know [fn] beforehand, guard yourselves, lest, by going after the error of the lawless, ye fall from your steadfastness.