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.
15. And this statement is currently reported. It was the finishing stroke of the vengeance of God to blind the Jews, that the resurrection of Christ was buried by the perjury of the soldiers, and that so gross a falsehood was believed.
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.
Verse 15. This saying is--reported. This account of the disappearance of the body of Jesus from the sepulchre is commonly given. Until this day. The time when Matthew wrote this gospel, i.e., about thirty years after the resurrection. The resurrection of the Lord Jesus, of which an account is given in this chapter, is one of the most important doctrines of the Christian religion, and...