As I was reading this morning in Matthew 28:11-15, I was wondering as Matthew was a tax collector in his life prior to becoming a disciple of Christ, did he have insider information about the report of the guard? Thoughts?
(Being one of the synoptic Gospels, why was he the only one to tell that part of the story?)
To respond to your post about Matt 28:11-15, Good thought, Mike. Being a money man, he probably noticed those types of details. I remember Michael Card who studied John extensively, said that John was written many years later, so purposely left out things that the other authors had included. Matthew wrote for the Christian Jews, so maybe this info was more interesting to those in Jerusalem, rather than to Mark who wrote for the Roman Christians.