Otherwise, They'll Say "Here's Why"

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, the virgin who 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 spoken to him by an angel of the Lord and took Mary and Jesus to Egypt. Sometime thereafter, an angel of the Lord told Joseph to return. and Joseph, Mary and Jesus began living in Nazareth in Galilee, Joseph and Mary's hometown. Less than 33 1/2 years after Jesus was born to Joseph and Mary, Jesus was betrayed, 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 the Lord Jesus, and Nicodemus, a Pharisee who had spoken privately with Jesus. Shortly thereafter, the chief priests and Pharisees went to see Pontius Pilate, the governor of Judea for the Roman Empire, regarding 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

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