and made: Every thing was here done which human policy and prudence could, to prevent a resurrection, which these very precautions had the most direct tendency to authenticate and establish.
sealing: Daniel 6:17; 2 Timothy 2:19
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Matthew 27:66
Matthew 27:66
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