Matthew 28 - Part 2

 

Read Matthew 28

If you didn’t get enough illogical steps on the way to the cross, you can add this one.  The soldiers reported what had happened to the chief priests.  They didn’t go tell their centurion.  They went to the religious hypocrites.

Surely, their account was the last thing they wanted to hear.  An angel?  A message of resurrection? Two women as witnesses?  Could it get any worse?  How could they spin this?

They paid the soldiers to tell a lie.  They had been asleep and the disciples of Jesus came and took his body.  That’s the best they could come up with but the hypocrites made sure that this was the story they endorsed and retold.

Fake news is not something new.

Here is the really illogical part.  For the soldiers to tell this story, they must admit that they were all asleep on duty.  They might have received a lot of money but I suspect there were some serious disciplinary measures imposed on them, likely involving multiple lashes.

In any case, the hypocrites had to pay to try and cover up the truth.

The truth was and is that Jesus is risen!

Amen.