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For Pray the Word on this Saturday of Holy Week, we think about this time in between Jesus' death.

And spoiler alert, his resurrection that's coming.

Matthew chapter 27, verses 57 through 66.

When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph, who was also a disciple of Jesus.

He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given

to him, and Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud and laid it in his own

tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and

went away. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting

opposite the tomb. The next day, that is, after the day of preparation, the chief priests and

the Pharisees gathered before Pilate and said, Sir, we remember how that imposter said while

he was still alive, after three days, I will rise. Therefore, order the tomb to be made secure until the third day,

lest his disciples go and steal him away and tell the people he's risen from the dead.

The last fraud will be worse than the first.

Pilots said to them,

You have a guard of soldiers, go make it as secure as you can.

So they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone and setting a guard.

Just a side note, I think Matthew 2765 is one of the more humorous verses in all of Scripture.

Like Pilots saying, go make the tomb as secure as you can.

Like you can stop God in any way from doing what he wants to do.

But come back to the whole passage, like Scripture is giving us some details here

about what happened after the crucifixion of Christ.

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