Matthew 27:63 (WEB)
saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’
Fathers and councils · 20
Cyril of Jerusalem
“If His death was but a show, they were true who said, We remember that that deceiver said, while He was yet alive, After three days I rise again.” — editor's note: Matt. xxvii. 63.
Read the whole comment“A garden enclosed, a fountain sealed, by the Jews who said, We remember that that deceiver said while He was yet alive, After three days, I will rise: command, therefore, that the sepulchre be made sure; and further on, So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone with the guard.” — editor's note: Matt. xxvii. 63, 65.
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis III.3Book III
“…which they made to Pilate, when they came and said, “Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxvii. 63.
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Gregory the Great
“Let us speak of the Holy of holies Himself, that is of God Who was made man for us, Who before His death heard the injurious charge that He had a devil, and after His death was called a deceiver by His persecutors, when one said, We know that that deceiver said, After three days I will rise again (Matth. xxvii. 63).” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“For they said to Pilate, “That deceiver;” by this name the Lord Jesus Christ was called, for the comfort of His servants when they are called deceivers; they say therefore to Pilate, “That deceiver said when yet living, After three days I will rise again:” …They set for guards soldiers at the sepulchre.” — editor's note: Matt. xxvii. 63.
Read the whole comment“So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxvii. 62–66.
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John Chrysostom
“And again, “That deceiver said while He was yet alive, after three days I will rise again.” ( Matt. xxvii. 63.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“To prove that they had this suspicion, listen to what they say; “We have heard that that deceiver said, After three days I will rise again” ( Matt. xxvii. 63 ); on this account they made all this stir, turning things upside down, that they might ruin matters in after time.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…as to their being aware of it, they say to Pilate, “That deceiver said,” these are their words, “while He was yet alive, After three days I will rise again;”and yet we know His disciples were ignorant of this; even as they had been beforehand more void of understanding than these: wherefore also these became…” — editor's note: Matt. xxvii. 63. [The citation is not exact: at the close a different verb, in a different tense, is given.—R.]
Read the whole comment“Matt. XXVII. 62-64.” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
It was not enough for the Chief Priests to have crucified the Lord the Saviour, if they did not guard the sepulchre, and do their utmost to lay hands on Him as He rose from the dead.
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By the Parasceve is meant ‘preparation;’ and they gave this name to the sixth day of the week, on which they made ready the things needed for the Sabbath, as was commanded respecting the manna, “On the sixth day they…
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They say that He had declared, “After three days I will rise again,” in consequence of that He said above, “As Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly,” &c. [Matt 12:40] But let us see in what way…
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He rose again after three days, to signify the consent of the whole Trinity in the passion of the Son; the three days’ space is read figuratively, because the Trinity which in the beginning made man, the same in the…
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“Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day.” For Christ’s disciples were spiritually thieves; stealing from the unthankful Jews the writings of the New and Old Testament, they bestowed…
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Their fear lest the body should be stolen, the setting a watch on the tomb, and sealing it, are marks of folly and unbelief, that they should have sought to seal up the tomb of One at whose bidding they had seen a…
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When they say, “And the last error will be worse than the first,” they utter a truth unwittingly, for their contempt of penitence was worse for the Jews than was their error of ignorance.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
Observe how against their will they concert to demonstrate the truth, for by their precautions irrefragable demonstration of the resurrection was attained. The sepulchre was watched, and so no fraud could have been…
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Pilate’s answer to their request is as much as to say, Be it enough for you that ye have conspired the death of an innocent man, henceforth let your error remain with you.
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Pilate will not suffer that the soldiers alone should seal. But as though he had learnt the truth concerning Christ, he was no longer willing to be partner in their acts, and says, Seal it as ye will yourselves, that…
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together in Rabanus Maurus on Matthew 27:62–64 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Rabanus Maurus on Matthew 27:62–64 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 27:62–64 (Catena Aurea).