Matthieu 27:65

65 Pilate leur dit: Vous avez une garde; allez, et faites-le garder comme vous l'entendrez.

Matthieu 27:65 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 27:65

Pilate said unto them, ye have a watch
Meaning either the watch of the temple, said to be placed in the tower of Antonia, for the service of it: hence mention is made of the captain of the temple, ( Acts 4:1 ) , but it is not likely they would remove the temple guards, to watch a sepulchre night and day: or rather, therefore, the soldiers that had had the care of the crucifixion of Christ, and watched him on the cross, are designed: the words may be read imperatively, "have yea watch", or "take a watch", as the Ethiopic version renders it, and which seems best; for if they had a watch already, what occasion had they to have applied to Pilate for one? but having none, he gives them leave to take one, or such a number of soldiers as were sufficient:

go your way;
as fast as you can, take the watch as soon as you please, make no stay, but satisfy yourselves in this point:

make [it] as sure as you can;
or, as you know how to do it, and what will be proper and necessary.

Matthieu 27:65 In-Context

63 Et lui dirent: Seigneur, nous nous souvenons que, quand ce séducteur vivait, il disait: Je ressusciterai dans trois jours.

64 Commande donc que le sépulcre soit gardé sûrement jusqu'au troisième jour, de peur que ses disciples ne viennent de nuit, et n'enlèvent son corps, et qu'ils ne disent au peuple: Il est ressuscité des morts. Cette dernière imposture serait pire que la première.

65 Pilate leur dit: Vous avez une garde; allez, et faites-le garder comme vous l'entendrez.

66 S'en étant donc allés, ils s'assurèrent du sépulcre, en scellant la pierre, et en y mettant la garde.