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1 | Roman guard myth? | Matt 28:11 | JCrichton | 122163 | ||
Hi, Norrie! Perhaps you are a stickler to the letter of the translation: Matthew 28:11-15 28:11 - Now while they were on their way, some of the guards went off into the city to tell the chief priests all that had happened. 28:12 - These held a meeting with the elders and, after some discussion, handed a considerable sum of money to the soldiers 28:13 - with these instructions, 'This is what you must say, "his disciples came during the night and stole him away while we were asleep." 28:14 - and should the governor come to hear of this, we undertake to put things right with him ourselves and to see that you do not get into trouble.' 28:15 - so they took the money and carried out their instructions, and to this day that is the story among the Jews. 28:12 talks about soldiers--why would the Romans allow the Jewish people to maintain an army within Roman occupied territory? 28:14 talks about the chief priests vowing to protect them from the governor--why the Roman governor get involved in a Jewish dispute about some guards that fell asleep while guarding some "nonsense" tomb? 18:15 talks about them taking "a considerable sum" of money from the chief priests--why would the priests, as shrewd as they were, give additional moneys to their own temple guards to perform a task that would be an extension of their service? 28:15 - talks about a story passed among the Jews--do you not think that if simple temple guards were outsmarted by Jesus' disciples the story would carry less and less wieght with the passing of time? Now Romans guards... that's a different story! The Romans were known for ther fierceness, their military code of conduct, and their unyielding valor (translation: if they failed their superior officers they could be imprisoned or killed!). Please reread Matthew 28:11-15 and think about this: why would the chief priests need to go to the Romans to post their own temple guards on the tomb, and why would the Romans care if the guards did a poor job at the tomb of a Jew? God Bless! Angel |
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2 | Roman guard myth? | Matt 28:11 | Norrie | 122240 | ||
OK, I reread the acct in the historical novel of Pontius Pilate by Paul Maier. For each chapter, in back he has the historical data from where he got his info. This is what it says: "THE GUARD AT THE TOMB: There is some contraversy as to whether the Jewish temple police or Pilate's Roman auxiliaries were used to guard the sepulcher. The Greek of Matthew 27:65 cites Pilate's statement simply as: "You have a guard," though grammatically this could also be translated. "You may have a guard." But the first translation seems perferrable, since the watch reported the empty tomb directly to the chief priests rather than Pilate (Matt 28:11), which the temple police would certainly have done. Pilate's auxiliaries would clearly have reported to him and only to him. Terullian, "Apologeticus" xxi, 20, also speaks of Jewish military guard at the tomb." |
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3 | Roman guard myth? | Matt 28:11 | following him | 122246 | ||
If it was a Roman guard they may not have reported back to Pilot because of the punishment they would face due to their failing to guard the tomb as they were supposed to and so went to the priest to insure their own survival. It is also conceivable that they would report first to the priests because it was priests who received the guards from Pilot. | ||||||
4 | Roman guard myth? | Matt 28:11 | Norrie | 122247 | ||
They would have been punished regardless, whether they reported to priests first or Pilate if it was Romans. From all the evidence, I believe it was temple guards. Pilate was thoroughly disgusted w/the whole matter and wanted nothing more to do w/it, he told priests to do what they wanted. | ||||||