persuade By bribes. Euripides says "they say that gifts persuadeeven gods." (Medea, 964.) The soldiers might readily believe that Pilate was open to the same inducement which persuaded them.

secure you "Make you free from anxiety." The only other place where the word occurs in N. T. is 1 Corinthians 7:32, "I would have you without carefulness."

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