The chief priest, and the Pharisees and Pontius Pilate
The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. "Sir," they said, "we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, 'After three days I will rise again.' So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first." "Take a guard," Pilate answered. "Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how." So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.-Matthew 27:62-66(NIV)***King Herod the Great was ruler of Judea for the Roman Empire. After Herod learned that the Christ was born, Herod asked the chief priests and scribes (teachers of the law) to tell him where the birth was expected to occur. Afterwards, Herod commanded that all boys in Bethlehem and its surrounding regions 2 years old and younger be killed. Joseph was the husband of Mary. Mary was a virgin and gave birth to Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, after Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in Mary's womb when Mary was a virgin. Joseph listened to the words of an angel of the Lord and took Mary and Jesus to Egypt. Sometime thereafter, an angel of the Lord told Joseph to return. After Joseph received another divine warning, Joseph, Mary and Jesus began living in Nazareth, Joseph and Mary's hometown in Galilee. Approximately 30 years after Jesus the Christ was born into the tribe of Judah to Joseph and Mary, Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River by Mary's relative John the Baptist, from the tribe of Levi. Jesus having prayed, the heavens tearing open, the Holy Spirit descended as a dove and lit upon Jesus. The Lord God in heaven audibly acknowledged his Son Jesus, and the Holy Spirit led Jesus into the desert wilderness. Jesus fasted 40 days and nights and was tempted. Afterwards, Jesus was tended to by angels, and Jesus went to the area near John the Baptist, and John the Baptist proclaimed Jesus to be the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world, and testified that Jesus is the Son of God. In Galilee, Jesus told specific Israelite men to follow him, and Jesus began to preach, teach and perform miracles among the Israelites, the treasured and chosen people of the Lord God. Less than 3 1/2 years after Jesus was baptized, Jesus was betrayed by Judas Iscariot the disciple and apostle, and Jesus arrested and crucified. The body of Jesus the Christ was taken from the cross, and wrapped in myrrh, aloes and clean linen, and placed in a new tomb by Joseph of Arimathea, a secret disciple of Jesus the Christ, and Nicodemus, a Pharisee who had spoken privately with Jesus. Shortly thereafter, the chief priests and Pharisees went to see Pontius Pilate, governor of Judea for the Roman Empire, about security for the tomb.-Genesis 11:26-35:29, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26
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And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.-Matthew 26:17-19