Report Of The Guards

Based on Matthew 28:11-15

While the women were on their way, some of the guards went into the city and reported to the chief priests everything that had happened. When the chief priests had met with the elders and devised a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money, telling them, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came during the night and stole him away while we were asleep.’ If this report gets to the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.” So the soldiers took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has been widely circulated among the Jews to this very day.

Guards

It’s a tale, too strange to tell

With lightning, to the ground we fell

An angel of God, he moved the stone

We feared so much, our lives were done

Priests

A tale for sure, it has no fact

You cannot share, we’ll make a pact

A sum of riches, yours to spend

Keep quiet or it will be your end

Guards

A mighty feat like this to view

A fearful sight, we’re telling you

A story that cannot be shared

A truth that must be undeclared

Priests

But a mere fable, it is true

No one will know, what you once knew

Forevermore you must relate

That this was false, that is your fate

The followers came through the dark

They took the body, left no mark

This is the tale that you will tell

Now go away, you’ve been paid well.