So ¹  they went with the soldiers ²  of the guard and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone.

(Now Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there, opposite the tomb.)

“Their throats are open graves, ¹  they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips.” ² 

“Woe to you, experts in the law ¹  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean. ² 

“Woe to you, experts in the law ¹  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You ²  build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves ³  of the righteous.

Now after the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

So give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body ¹  and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”