Matthew 27:66
So they went and made the sepulchre secure by sealing the stone and setting a guard.
There is an odd paradox about sin and sanctity. Sin is enormously clever about small things and colossally stupid about big ones. Sanctity is often quite unclever about small things and colossally wise about big ones. Nowhere is that that more in evidence than in the enormous ingenuity of the men who laid their plans, schemed their schemes and plotted their plots against Jesus. For his part, in his simplicity Jesus did not open his mouth against the legal clevernesses ranged against him. And so, quite simply, the Holy One died and was buried. Yet even after he was dead, no tombstone was to be left unturned in making sure that their ingenious plot against him completely extinguished the memory of him. It was all intricate and perfect till a small and overlooked detail spoiled the elaborately stupid plan: Quite simply, the Holy One rose again!
