John Trapp on Matthew 27:64

Verse 64. Command therefore] How fain would the devil by his [illegible: 1 word] have kept Christ still in the grave, when there they had him. But all in vain: for his resurrection was to be the demonstration of his deity, Rom. 1. 4. and the ground work of our safety, 1 Cor. 15 14. He turned therefore their counsell into foolishnesse, and in the fight of so many armed witnesses, rose the third day, in despite of them, breaking the bonds of death as easily, asJudg 36. 7. Sampson did the [illegible: 1 word] withs. Least his Disciples come by night] A most vain, and yet a most vexing fear, such as was that of Herod after he had beheaded John Baptist: he thought he heard that holy head ever shouting and crying out against him, for his cruelty. This is John Baptist, said he (when he heard the fame of Jesus,) whom I have beheaded. Exod. 23. 28. I will send the hornet, saith God, before thee. What was that hornet, but the misgiving fear of the Canaanites self condemning consciences, that haunted them perpetually? So here.