65Pilate said to them, You have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as you can.


In Context

62 Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together to Pilate,

63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.

64 Command therefore that the sepulcher be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.

65 Pilate said to them, You have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as you can.

66 So they went, and made the sepulcher sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.

Matthew 27:65 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:65Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make [it] as sure as ye can.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

27:65"Take a guard," Pilate answered. "Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how."

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

27:65Pilate said unto them, Ye have a guard: go, make it as'sure as ye can.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

27:65Pilate saith to them: You have a guard; go, guard it as you know.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:65And Pilate said to them, Ye have a watch: go, secure it as well as ye know how.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

27:65Pilate said unto them, Ye have a guard: go your way, make it as sure as ye can.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:65Pilate said to them, Ye have a watch: go, make it as secure as ye can.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:65Pilate said to them, |You have a guard. Go, make it as secure as you can.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

27:65And Pilate said to them, 'Ye have a watch, go away, make secure — as ye have known;'