(March 18, 2019 at 3:34 pm)Vicki Q Wrote: Matthew never claims the Jewish authorities knew/believed Jesus had been resurrected. They were proceeding with a strategy to kill off reports that something odd had happened.
Really? They were paying off people with large sums of money not to make up odd stories? Gee, it must have been a really easy way to make money 2000 years ago: you just walk to Jewish elders and say: "hey, I just saw a pink dragon vomiting candy and singing 'Oh! Susanna'" and they would immediately give me large sums of money to keep quiet.