MARY, OUR MOTHER

SCRIPTURE COMMENTARY # 601

 And the next day, which followed the day of preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees came together to Pilate,  Saying: "Sir, we have remembered, that that seducer said, while he was yet alive: After three days I will rise again. Command therefore the sepulchre to be guarded until the third day: lest perhaps his disciples come and steal him away and say to the people: He is risen from the dead. And the last error shall be worse than the first." Pilate saith to them: "You have a guard. Go, guard it as you know." And they departing, made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone and setting guards. (Matt. 27:62-66)

THE DEVICES to which the enemies of Jesus resorted to keep His Body in the grave, and to destroy all belief in Him, tended against their will to His glory, and manifested to the whole world that it was by His own power alone that Jesus came forth from the sealed and guarded grave. Thus, by God's wisdom, good can be made to come out of evil.

[From 'A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture' by Bishop Knecht, D.D.]
(1899 Douay-Rheims Bible)