Gospel of Peter 8
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28But the scribes and Pharisees and eiders gathered: one with another, for they had heard that all the people were murmuring and beating their breasts, saying: If these very great signs have come to pass at his death, behold how 29righteous he was. And the elders were afraid and came unto 30Pilate, entreating him and saying: Give us soldiers that we (or they) may watch his sepulchre for three days, lest his disciples come and steal him away and the people suppose 31that he is risen from the dead, and do us hurt. And Pilate gave them Petronius the centurion with soldiers to watch the sepulchre; and the elders and scribes came with them unto 32the tomb, and when they had rolled a great stone to keep out (al. together with) the centurion and the soldiers, then all 33that were there together set it upon the door of the tomb; and plastered thereon seven seals; and they pitched a tent there and kept watch.
James-ANT: M. R. James, The Apocryphal New Testament (1924) - selections (1924) · Public Domain in the US (published 1924; James d. 1936) · M. R. James, The Apocryphal New Testament (Oxford, 1924), public domain in the US. Transcription: English Wikisource (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Apocryphal_New_Testament_(1924)).