Discovery BoxMatthew 15:32 
ContextThe Feeding of the Four Thousand
15:32 Then Jesus called the 1 disciples and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days and they have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry since they may faint on the way.”
Matthew 27:64
Context27:64 So give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body 2 and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”
1 tc ‡ Although the external evidence is not great (א W Θ 700 pc), the internal evidence for the omission of αὐτοῦ (autou, “his”) after “disciples” is fairly strong. The pronoun may have been added by way of clarification. NA27, however, includes the pronoun, on the basis of the much stronger external evidence.
2 tn Grk “him.”
