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Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, orange:accusative/object, cyan:dative/indirect object.
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ULTAnd Pilate said to them, “You have a guard. Go, secure it as you know.”
Wymth"You can have a guard," said Pilate: "go and make all safe, as best you can."
ASVPilate said unto them, Ye have a guard: go, make it as sure as ye can.
DRAPilate saith to them: You have a guard; go, guard it as you know.
YLTAnd Pilate said to them, 'Ye have a watch, go away, make secure — as ye have known;'
DrbyAnd Pilate said to them, Ye have a watch: go, secure it as well as ye know how.
RVPilate said unto them, Ye have a guard: go your way, make it as sure as ye can.
WbstrPilate said to them, Ye have a watch: go, make it as secure as ye can.
KJB-1769Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can. (Pilate said unto them, Ye/You_all have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye/you_all can. )
KJB-1611Pilate said vnto them, Yee haue a watch, goe your way, make it as sure as you can. (Pilate said unto them, Ye/You_all have a watch, go your way, make it as sure as you can.)
BshpsPilate sayde vnto them: Ye haue the watche, go your way, make it as sure as ye knowe. (Pilate said unto them: Ye/You_all have the watche, go your way, make it as sure as ye/you_all knowe.)
GnvaThen Pilate saide vnto them, Ye haue a watch: goe, and make it sure as ye knowe. (Then Pilate said unto them, Ye/You_all have a watch: go, and make it sure as ye/you_all knowe. )
CvdlPylate sayde vnto them: There haue ye watchme, go youre waye, and kepe it as ye can. (Pylate said unto them: There have ye/you_all watchme, go your(pl) way, and keep it as ye/you_all can.)
TNTPilate sayde vnto them. Take watche men: Go and make it as sure as ye can. (Pilate said unto them. Take watche men: Go and make it as sure as ye/you_all can. )
WyclPilat seide to hem, Ye han the kepyng; go ye, kepe ye as ye kunnen. (Pilat said to them, Ye/You_all have the kepyng; go ye/you_all, keep ye/you_all as ye/you_all kunnen.)
LuthPilatus sprach zu ihnen: Da habt ihr die Hüter; gehet hin und verwahret, wie ihr wisset. (Pilatus spoke to to_them: So have you/their/her the Hüter; gehet there and verwahret, like you/their/her wisset.)
ClVgAit illis Pilatus: Habetis custodiam, ite, custodite sicut scitis. (He_said illis Pilatus: Habetis custodiam, ite, custodite like scitis. )
27:62-66 This incident bolsters the truth of Jesus’ resurrection—it is inconceivable that Matthew would fabricate such a story since witnesses abounded who could have countered the claims.
Here, Pilate could be using the statement You have a guard to: (1) give the chief priests and Pharisees permission to take a guard of Roman soldiers with them. Alternate translation: [You may take a Roman guard] (2) tell the chief priests and Pharisees that they already have their own guard that they should use. Alternate translation: [You already have your own guard]
In this verse, the word guard is singular in form, but it refers to multiple soldiers or guards as a group. If it would be helpful in your language, you could say this plainly. Alternate translation: [some guards] or [soldiers to act as guards]
Here Pilate implies that they should Go to Jesus’ tomb. You could include this information if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: [Go to his tomb]
Here, the phrase as you know indicates that Pilate wants the chief priests and Pharisees to secure the tomb in whatever ways they know are effective. You could include this information if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: [as best as you can] or [in whatever way you think is best]
On the Thursday before he was crucified, Jesus had arranged to share the Passover meal with his disciples in an upper room, traditionally thought to be located in the Essene Quarter of Jerusalem. After they finished the meal, they went to the Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus often met with his disciples. There Judas Iscariot, one of Jesus’ own disciples, betrayed him to soldiers sent from the High Priest, and they took Jesus to the High Priest’s residence. In the morning the leading priests and teachers of the law put Jesus on trial and found him guilty of blasphemy. The council sent Jesus to stand trial for treason before the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who resided at the Praetorium while in Jerusalem. The Praetorium was likely located at the former residence of Herod the Great, who had died over 30 years earlier. When Pilate learned that Jesus was from Galilee, he sent him to Herod Antipas, who had jurisdiction over Galilee. But when Jesus gave no answer to Herod’s many questions, Herod and his soldiers sent him back to Pilate, who conceded to the people’s demands that Jesus be crucified. Jesus was forced to carry his cross out of the city gate to Golgotha, meaning Skull Hill, referring to what may have been a small unquarried hill in the middle of an old quarry just outside the gate. After Jesus was unable to carry his cross any further, a man named Simon from Cyrene was forced to carry it for him. There at Golgotha they crucified Jesus. After Jesus died, his body was hurriedly taken down before nightfall and placed in a newly cut, rock tomb owned by Joseph of Arimathea, a member of the Jewish high council. This tomb was likely located at the perimeter of the old quarry.
