13telling them, "You are to say, 'His disciples came during the night and stole him away while we were asleep.'


In Context

10 Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me."

11 While the women were on their way, some of the guards went into the city and reported to the chief priests everything that had happened.

12 When the chief priests had met with the elders and devised a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money,

13 telling them, "You are to say, 'His disciples came during the night and stole him away while we were asleep.'

14 If this report gets to the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble."

15 So the soldiers took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has been widely circulated among the Jews to this very day.

Matthew 28:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

28:13Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him [away] while we slept.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

28:13Saying, Say you, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

28:13Saying: Say you, His disciples came by night, and stole him away when we were asleep.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

28:13saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:13saying, Say that his disciples coming by night stole him while we were sleeping.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

28:13saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:13Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:13saying, |Say that his disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

28:13saying, 'Say ye, that his disciples having come by night, stole him — we being asleep;