The Earliest Jewish Response Finally, the earliest Jewish response to the proclamation of Jesus’ resurrection presupposes the empty tomb. In Matthew’s gospel we find an attempt to refute the earliest Jewish response to the Christian proclamation of the resurrection: While they were going, behold, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests all that had taken place. And when they had assembled with the elders and taken counsel, they gave a sum of money to the soldiers and said, “Tell people, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.’ And if this
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