Matthew 28:15

Matthew 28:15 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.
• English Standard Version (ESV)So they took the money and did as they were directed. And this story has been spread among the Jews to this day.
• New King James Version (NKJV)So they took the money and did as they were instructed; and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.
• New Living Translation (NLT)So the guards accepted the bribe and said what they were told to say. Their story spread widely among the Jews, and they still tell it today.

Context of Matthew 28:15

13telling them, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came during the night and stole him away while we were asleep.’ 14If this report gets to the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.” So the soldiers took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has been widely circulated among the Jews to this very day. 16Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted.

Matthew 28:15 word by word

Οἱ δὲ λαβόντες τὰ ἀργύρια ἐποίησαν ὡς ἐδιδάχθησαν. καὶ διεφημίσθη ὁ λόγος οὗτος παρὰ Ἰουδαίοις μέχρι τῆς σήμερον ἡμέρας.¶Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Soδέde · thenG1161
• theyὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• tookλαμβάνωlambanō · to takeG2983
• the moneyἀργύριονargurion · moneyG694
• and didποιέωpoieō · to do/make: doG4160
• asὡςhōs · as/whenG5613
• they were taughtδιδάσκωdidaskō · to teachG1321
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• thisοὗτοςhoutos houtoi hautē hautai · this/he/she/itG3778
• sayingλόγοςlogos · wordG3056
• is commonly reportedδιαφημίζωdiaphēmizō · to publish abroadG1310
• amongπαράpara · from/with/besideG3844
• the JewsἸουδαῖοςIoudaios · JewG2453
• untilμέχριmechri mechris · untilG3360
• this dayσήμερονsēmeron · todayG4594

Cross-references for Matthew 28:15

• Matthew 26:15and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver him over to you?” So they counted out for him thirty pieces of silver.
• 1 Timothy 6:10For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
• Matthew 27:8That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

Commentaries on Matthew 28:15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15Until this day - That is to say, the time in which Matthew wrote his Gospel; which is supposed by some to have been eight, by others eighteen, and by others thirty years after our Lord's resurrection.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15This saying is commonly reported - This account of the disappearance of the body of Jesus from the sepulchre is commonly given. Until this day - The time when Matthew wrote this gospel that is, about 30 years after the resurrection. The resurrection of the Lord Jesus, of which an account is given in this chapter, is one of the most important doctrines of the Christian religion, and is attested by the strongest evidence that can be adduced in favor of any…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-15Verses 11-15 What wickedness is it which men will not be brought to by the love of money! Here was large money given to the soldiers for advancing that which they knew to be a lie, yet many grudge a little money for advancing what they know to be the truth. Let us never starve a good cause, when we see bad ones so liberally supported. The priests undertook to secure them from the sword of Pilate, but could not secure these soldiers from the sword of God's…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15And this account has been circulated among the Jews to this very day: Around AD 165, the early church father Justin Martyr wrote to the Jews of his time. He wrote, “You have sent . . . men throughout all the world to proclaim, ‘A godless and lawless heresy has sprung from one Jesus, a Galilean deceiver, whom we crucified, but his disciples stole him by night from the tomb . . . and now [the disciples] deceive men by asserting that he has risen from the…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1515. So they took the money, and did as they were taught--thus consenting to brand themselves with infamy. and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day--to the date of the publication of this Gospel. The wonder is that so clumsy and incredible a story lasted so long. But those who are resolved not to come to the light will catch at straws. Justin Martyr, who flourished about A.D. 170, says, in his Dialogue with Trypho the Jew, that…Read the comment

Topics related to Matthew 28:15

• Bribery
• Falsehood
• Jesus, the Christ
• Money
• Soldiers
• Witness

In the dictionaries

• Dawn
• Observe
• Blaze
• Jesus Christ
• Matthew, the Gospel of
• Spread; Spreading
• Jew, Jewish
• report, reported, tell, reputation

Commentaries on Matthew 28

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings