[after Matthew 28:12-15]
If, as you say, those soldiers could not keep
awake and vigilant, as was their duty:
how can they say who really stole the body?
How could they see who did, being asleep?
Let us avoid strong words, hasty and rash:
I, too, prefer your largesse of large cash.
Starward
[jlc]
Author's Notes/Comments:
The internal contradiction of the report made by the priests on behalf of the guards was pointed out to me as I read A. T. Robertson's commentary on the Gospel of Saint Matthew. Although I have read Matthew 28 countless times, I have always looked at the false accusation, generally, rather than the specific contradiction within it, which adds a great deal more silliness to it. Line 6 is my own assertion, without evidence, but based upon other accounts of Pilate that I have read.
