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Notes on today's episode we're 
looking at the Gospel reading 

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for today which is from Matthew 
chapter 28 verses 8 to 15 filled

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with or and great joy. 
The women came quickly away from

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the tomb and ran to tell the 
disciples and they're coming to 

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meet them with Jesus. 
Greetings he said and the women 

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came up to him and falling down 
before him clasped his feet. 

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Then Jesus said to them do not 
be afraid. 

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Go and tell my brothers that 
they must leave for Galilee. 

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They will see me there. 
While they were on their way. 

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Some of the Guard went off into 
the city, to tell the chief 

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priests all that had happened. 
These held a meeting with the 

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elders and after some discussion
handed, a considerable sum of 

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money to the soldiers with these
instructions. 

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This is what you must say. 
His disciples came during the 

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night and stole him away while 
we were asleep. 

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And should the governor come to 
hear of this? 

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We undertake to put things, 
right with him ourselves and to 

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see that you do not get into 
trouble. 

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The soldiers took the money and 
carried out their instructions 

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and to this day, that is the 
story among the Jews. 

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So, an interesting reading 
today, Matthew gives us some 

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additional information that the 
other gospel authors don't about

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what took place shortly after 
the resurrection. 

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So the context is the women have
just gone to the tomb early on 

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Easter Sunday, to anoint the 
body with spices. 

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And while they're there, they 
see an angel descend from 

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heaven. 
And the angel rolls away, the 

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stone and tells them that Jesus 
has risen. 

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So that happens before our text 
today. 

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So we get to verse 8. 
I love it. 

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Angel has told them to go see 
the disciples so filled with or 

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and great joy, the women came 
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ran to tell the disciples. 
Now, as we've discussed before 

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the word for all here can be 
translated fear. 

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And we know from Mark's gospel 
than in fact, it appears that 

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women were too afraid initially 
to go to the disciples but they 

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later changed their minds. 
Now, apparently, while they're 

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on the way to see the disciples,
they have an encounter with 

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Jesus verse 9 and they're coming
to meet them was Jesus. 

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And what an amazing sight that 
must have been, he says to them.

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Greetings, that's quite a 
friendly greeting, because he 

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knows how shocking it must be 
for them to see him like that. 

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So, he wants to say something, 
friendly, the women came up to 

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him and falling down before him 
clasped his feet. 

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And other translations. 
Make it clear that what's going 

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on here is worshipped. 
So the women recognize that 

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Jesus has the power of God and 
in fact he might be God himself 

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and by touching him physically, 
they're able to confirm for 

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themselves that it's not a 
ghost, it really is the Flesh 

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and Blood Jesus and the 
catechism talks a bit about this

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as well. 
Verse 10, Jesus goes on to talk 

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about my brothers and which 
would suggest that Christ has 

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forgiven his disciples and in 
other podcasts during the Easter

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season, we've talked about how 
Jesus might be thinking of Psalm

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22. 
When he's discussing my brothers

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in reference to his disciples 
and he says, to the women do not

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be afraid. 
Go and tell my brothers that 

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they must leave for Galilee. 
They will see me there. 

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So shortly the women do go and 
see the apostles and tell them 

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all this information. 
Tell them what the angel and 

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what Jesus has told them about 
going to Galilee and you can 

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read about the conversation that
women have with the apostles in 

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Luke chapter 24 verses 9 to 11 
the disciples initially don't 

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believe the women but later that
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the disciples themselves 
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And what happens from that point
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Wait in Jerusalem for another 
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And then after that, extra week 
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Jerusalem and go to Galilee as 
per Jesus instructions. 

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So some of that text, we've 
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associated with Easter, but now 
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verse 11 while they were on 
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So this is talking about the 
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the apostles some of the Guard. 
Now here we're talking about the

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Roman guards who had been 
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important to emphasize for this 
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The whole point, the whole 
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the first place is because the 
Jewish leaders were worried that

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someone might come and steal, 
Jesus body. 

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And so the solution in fact, 
pilot solution to that was, 

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let's put some guards in front 
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So that no one can steal the 
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That was the whole job. 
That was the whole point of them

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being at the tomb. 
So they had one job you could 

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say which was to guard the tomb 
and now the tomb was empty. 

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So they failed in their job. 
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course, because it was the angel
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Tomb. 
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anything about it. 
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city to tell the chief priests 
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Now, why don't the Roman guards?
Go straight to their boss, which

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is pilot probably because pilot 
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that they were so incompetent 
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tomb. 
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possibly for protection, but 
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the chief priest what has 
happened. 

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They know the chief priests will
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because this was the man they 
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days ago and now they're going 
to want to know that the man's 

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body is now missing so they 
don't work for the chief priests

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but they go to the chief priests
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So the chief Priests of those 
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in Jerusalem, they hear what the
guards, tell them and they hold 

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a meeting with the elders. 
And so the elders will be kind 

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of the local leaders of 
Jerusalem. 

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They're in charge of the 
political Affairs of Jerusalem. 

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So we have the chief priests who
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Jerusalem and the Elwood is 
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politically. 
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So these are the leaders who 
together control the Affairs of 

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Jerusalem, they're in charge of 
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everything is kept in order. 
So they discuss. 

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What are we going to do? 
The body is missing, what's the 

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best solution? 
So what they do is they hand a 

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considerable sum of money to the
soldiers with these 

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instructions. 
So the going to bribe the soul, 

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It's basically to lie about what
has happened. 

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Most likely the sold, the 
soldiers, came to them and said,

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an angel appeared from heaven. 
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they passed out. 
Now, the salt, the probably, the

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chief priests know that 
something supernatural has 

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happened. 
And it's really important to 

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think about what's going on 
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The way that they bribe, the 
soldiers suggests that the chief

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priests and the elders. 
They know that something 

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Supernatural is happened. 
They probably know that Jesus 

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has risen. 
Risen from the dead, but they 

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don't want to believe it 
anything, but that, and that's 

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pretty consistent with the way 
they've behaved in the gospels 

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up. 
Until now, they always find it 

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easy to deny the Messiah. 
That's always a much easier 

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solution than actually agreeing 
with him and opening their minds

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for the truth. 
And here, they do the same 

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thing. 
So, this is the story. 

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They want the guards to tell 
anyone who asks, his disciples 

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came during the night and stole 
him away while we were asleep. 

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Now, that's really, not a very 
likely story but this is what 

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they want the guards to tell 
people. 

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If you think about it, Roman 
guards were very well trained 

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and they're very unlikely to 
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They wouldn't let that happen. 
So it's incredibly unlikely that

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the guards actually fell asleep 
while they're guarding the tomb.

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And also think about it if the 
guards were asleep and then the 

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disciples snuck in and stole the
body. 

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How could they know the body was
stolen? 

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If the guards, the guards were 
asleep. 

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They don't know what happened. 
So there's a lot of indications,

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the chief priests didn't really 
think their story through there.

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Still some Scholars today that 
would prefer this explanation 

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that the disciples literally did
come and steal the body. 

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Some scholars believe that's why
the tomb was empty on the third 

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day. 
It's not the best explanation 

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but of course the chief priests 
need an alternative story to be 

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spread apart from the 
resurrection story. 

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Anything but the resurrection 
and this is the best they can 

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come up with, why are they? 
So insistent on it while because

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they don't want the Jesus 
movement to be revived. 

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And their mind there was too 
much, too much excitement and 

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fervor Around Jesus, and his 
ministry. 

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And if people hear that, Jesus 
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Then there'll be another 
Uprising and they Have to deal 

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with the Romans and it could get
out of hand a bit, which was 

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their initial concern and why 
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originally anyway. 
So they say, let's just come up 

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with an alternative explanation,
the disciples stole the body and

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they then go on to tell the 
guards. 

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This should the governor come to
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Remember, the reason why the 
guards didn't go straight to 

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pilate the governor was because 
they think pilot will be angry 

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and we'll kill them. 
And that probably is true based 

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on what we know about pilot. 
So should the governor come to 

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hear of this? 
We the chief priests undertake 

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to put things, right with him 
ourselves and to see that you do

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not get into trouble. 
So the chief priests promise 

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that if pilot here's the story. 
Then the chief priests will 

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protect the guards and protect 
them from being punished by 

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Pilot. 
They want the soldiers to be on 

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their side and so they're giving
the soldiers, all these 

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assurances that they will be 
safe, just take the money, 

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spread the story and all will be
well So verse 15, that's what 

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they did. 
They take the money and they did

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as they were directed. 
Now, why didn't the Romans 

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believed that Jesus was 
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Well, a couple of reasons, 
apparently, they had passed out 

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when they saw the angel and so 
they probably didn't know the 

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fullness of what happened in the
empty tomb and also they're not 

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Jewish. 
They don't believe in God's, 

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they don't really have a 
framework of understanding 

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what's happened on that day, so 
they also are willing to go 

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along with this story. 
They take the money and save the

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disciples stole the body. 
And then Matthew adds this 

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interesting comment at the end 
here, And to this day, that is 

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the story among the Jews. 
So, apparently, this theory that

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the disciples stole Jesus body 
was the main narrative, which 

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was adopted amongst the Jews 
often. 

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We might sort of, wonder if 
Jesus rose from the dead. 

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Why didn't everyone hear about 
it? 

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Why didn't everyone in 
Jerusalem? 

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Come to believe in him straight 
away. 

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And here, Matthew actually gives
us the answer. 

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It's the very quickly, the chief
priest came up with an 

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alternative explanation and that
spread really quickly. 

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And in the end most of Jerusalem
believed the Explanation, which 

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was that the disciples stole the
body? 

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Now notice it's really 
interesting to notice what this 

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tells us the empty tomb was a 
fact that everyone believed, no 

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one disputed that the tomb was 
empty and it's important to 

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emphasize this because again 
sometimes today Scholars will 

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say the tomb wasn't empty. 
Well according to all the 

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documents we have everyone at 
the time Christian or not 

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believe that Jesus tomb was 
empty on the third day, it was 

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just a question. 
Stern of why Jesus tomb was 

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empty and there was different 
explanations about it. 

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Either you were a Christian and 
you believe Jesus is 

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resurrected, that was one group 
of people and the rest of the 

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Jews agree that the tomb was 
empty, but that they believe the

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disciples had stolen the body. 
So that was the situation in the

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says to this day, he's probably 
writing around a.d. 55. 

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So, 25 years on from the 
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Leave the what happened on that 
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Was the disciples stole the 
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What is Matthew include this 
information about the guards and

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the alternative theory of 
stealing the body but the other 

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gospel authors don't Probably 
because he's writing to Jewish 

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readers and so many of his 
readers would have heard this 

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theory that his body was stolen.
That's what most Jews believed 

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about, what happened on Easter 
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So, Matthew is writing to 
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what's the origin of this 
theory. 

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That the disciples stole the 
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He wants them to know the truth 
about what happened. 

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But he also to do that, he has 
to tell them where this Fall 

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Story came from. 
So that's what's really exciting

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about exegesis is when we think 
about Out the author in the 

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audience we can reasonably work 
out why some things got included

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and other things didn't. 
So an interesting kind of 

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subplots that we get to hear 
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From Matthew's gospel about what
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leaders did about the, the empty
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So let's move on to the 
catechism passages. 

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Where does this get reference in
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So firstly in paragraph 6 41, 
which is in in fact, all of our 

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paragraphs today are from around
paragraph 640, which is a 

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discussion of the Resurrection. 
Paragraph 6, 41 says Mary 

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Magdalene and the holy women who
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The body of Jesus, which had 
been buried in haste because the

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Sabbath began on the evening of 
Good Friday, were the first to 

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encounter the Risen one. 
Thus the women were the first 

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messengers of Christ's 
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themselves. 
So remember the start of our 

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passage today, the women were 
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the apostles. 
So they were like Apostles to 

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the apostles. 
Paragraph 645, we have a 

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discussion about the fact that 
Jesus was Flesh and Blood, it 

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says by means of touch and the 
sharing of a meal. 

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The Risen Jesus establishes, 
direct contact with his 

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disciples. 
He invites them in this way to 

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recognize that he is not a ghost
and above all to verify that the

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Risen body in which he appears 
to them, is the same body that 

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have been tortured and crucified
for it, still Bears the traces 

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of his passion. 
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talk about how he does have new 
abilities in his body after his 

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Resurrected. 
And then in paragraph 6 40 it 

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says, why do you seek the living
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He is not here, but has risen 
the first element. 

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We encounter in the framework of
the Easter events is the empty 

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tomb in itself. 
It is not a direct proof of 

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Resurrection, the absence of 
Christ's body from the tomb 

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could be explained. 
Otherwise, nonetheless, the 

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empty tomb wasn't a still, an 
essential sign for all its 

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Discovery by the disciples was 
the first step towards 

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recognizing I seen the very fact
of the Resurrection, So that 

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line there in paragraph 640 
about this other explanations 

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for the resurrection. 
Of course, one of those is that 

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the disciples stole the body. 
And so, the catechism references

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here, Matthew chapter 28 that we
heard today. 

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So that's the end of today's 
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