Matthew 28:15

Matthew 28:15. This saying. This report of the soldiers; not the entire account here given.

Was spread abroad. This points to the time when the falsehood gained currency.

Until this day, i.e., when the Gospel was written, possibly thirty or forty years after the resurrection. It was current among the Jews in the second and third centuries, and has been believed in later times. In view of this currency of the story, it follows that either the Sanhedrin or the early Christians invented a lie. There is no middle ground. The testimony we possess, the proper inquiry after motives on either side, as well as the history of both for eighteen centuries, show conclusively that it was the early Christians who invented the falsehood.

THE RISEN LORD IN GALILEE.