Matthew 28:11

‘Now while they were going, behold, some of the guard came into the city, and told the chief priests all the things that had happened.'

At the same time as the women were going to tell the Apostles and their fellow-believers that the tomb was empty, the guards were going to the Chief Priests for the same reason. But while the women went with joy in their hearts the soldiers were very unhappy, and they came to the Chief Priests and explained what had happened.

Came into the city.' There is a parallel and contrast here with coming into the city of the ‘saints' as witnesses to the resurrection (Matthew 27:53). The saints came to ‘many'. The women came to the disciples. And the soldiers came to the Chief Priests. All in their own way testified to wonderful happenings. It was only the Chief Priests who refused to hear and believe.

‘All the things that had happened.' That is, everything of which they were aware. They had not witnessed the resurrection, nor possibly could they remember much about the angel, for the former had taken place before the grave was opened, (unless we take Matthew 27:51 as indicating that it resulted at the same time as the earthquake), and they were traumatised by the latter