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^62bThe leaders of the Jewish ceremonies got together with their law men called Pharisees, and they went to the Roman boss called Pilate.

⁶³They said, “Sir, we can remember what Jesus said while he was still alive. That man tried to get people to believe things that are not true. He said, ‘I will die, then 3 days later I will come alive again.’

⁶⁴So we want to stop his followers, so that they can’t come and steal his body, and then tell everyone he got up alive again. If they do that, we’ll be worse off than before. So we want somebody to look after the cave that has his body, and guard it properly for 3 days.”

⁶⁵Pilate said, “All right. You can take a mob of soldiers to guard that cave. And you can put some mud around the edge of that stone, so that we will know if somebody tries to move it. You know how to do that.”

⁶⁶So they did that. They put mud around the edge of the stone that blocked the cave. And they told the soldiers, “Guard this cave. Don’t let anyone touch it.”