Bible Verses About Soldiers: Guard the sepulchre

Then Pilate saide vnto them, Ye haue a watch: goe, and make it sure as ye knowe.

Nowe when they were gone, beholde, some of the watch came into the citie, and shewed vnto the hie Priestes all ye things that were done.

And they gathered them together with the Elders, and tooke counsell, and gaue large money vnto the souldiers,

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

And if this matter come before the gouernour to be heard, we will perswade him, and so vse the matter that you shall not neede to care.

So they tooke the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is noysed among the Iewes vnto this day.