Matthew's Guards at the Tomb

Matthew is the only Gospel to include the story of the guards at the tomb - supposedly the only actual eyewitnesses of the Resurrection - in the Resurrection narrative. For a number of reasons discussed below, this piece of the narrative is clearly ahistorical, acting (I argue) as a counter-counter-argument to the Jewish claims of a stolen body that we know existed (both from Matthew's own claims and from Justin Martyr).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbZEsaL2unw

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