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Fake News From The Tomb.
Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Jul 17, 2023 (message contributor)
Summary: To what extremes some men will go in order to deny the truth of the Gospel!
FAKE NEWS FROM THE TOMB.
While the women were going with the GOOD NEWS to the disciples, the guards went to report to the chief priests, who concocted an unlikely piece of FAKE NEWS with them. The guards were bribed with “MUCH MONEY” by the ‘religious’ leaders to say quite specifically that they WERE asleep, and that “WHILE THEY WERE ASLEEP” Jesus’ disciples came by night and stole His body (Matthew 28:11-13). But if they were asleep, how could they know that?
And if word got back to the Governor, the religious leaders would persuade him and “secure you” or (literally) ‘you free from care will make.’ And thus the rumour began, which was still in circulation when Matthew wrote, and no doubt for some time afterward (Matthew 28:14-15). To what extremes some men will go in order to deny the truth of the Gospel!
