Matthew 28:14
“And if this come to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him, and secure you.”
And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers,
Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
And if this come to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him, and secure you.
So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.
Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.
Cross-References
“Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.”
“And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.”
“And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judea to Cesarea, and there abode.”
“For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”