I have always wanted to record this, and now is my chance. When I was in 8th grade, my class took a field trip the the Holocaust Museum in Dallas. The first thing we did when we got to the museum was gather into a huge room with a big screen, and our tour guide gave us an introduction to the Holocaust and a few testimonies of living survivors. At the end of the presentation, the guide told us that he was a Jew and a descendant of Jews who were persecuted in the Holocaust. I don't remember how he approached this subject, but he brought up the fact that he did not believe in Jesus and that Jesus was not the eagerly awaited Messiah as Christians believe... What the guide said next blew me away! He told me the same exact story that the chief priests had paid the soldiers to tell the people in Matt. 28:11-15. This is how it went:
While they were going, behold, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests all that had taken place. And when they assembled with the elders and taken counsel, they gave a sufficient sum of money to the soldiers and said, "Tell people, 'His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.' And if this comes to the governor's ears, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble." So they took the money and did as they were directed. And this story has been spread among the Jews to this day. -Matt. 28:11-15 ESV
If i could have opened up my bible to show the man that verse I would have done it in a heart beat!
I recommend reading all of Matthew chapter 28 to understand that this was to cover up Jesus' resurrection from the dead.
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