therewith differs from the accounts in the other Gospels.

The story quoted above from Matthew as to the bribing of Roman
soldiers by the priests to circulate the falsehood about the
stealing of Christ's body by His disciples is not alluded to
by Mark, Luke, or John.

Matthew, in his account of the fact of the Resurrection, says
that there was an earthquake when the angel rolled away the stone.
In the other Gospels there is no word of this earthquake.

But not in any of the Gospels is it asserted that any man or woman
saw Jesus leave the tomb.

The story of His actual rising from the dead was first told by some
woman, or women, who said they had seen an angel, or angels, who
had declared that Jesus was risen.

There is not an atom of evidence that these young men who told the
story were angels. There is not an atom of evidence that they were
not men, nor that they had not helped to revive or to remove the
swooned or dead Jesus.

Stress has been laid upon the presence of the Roman guard. The
presence of such a guard is improbable. But if the guard was really
there, it might have been as easily bribed to allow the body to be
removed, as Matthew suggests that it was easily bribed to say that
the body had been stolen.

Matthew says that after the Resurrection the disciples were ordered