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|And if this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and secure you.
 
|And if this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and secure you.
 
|"And if the governor hears about this, we will persuade him and keep you out of trouble."
 
|"And if the governor hears about this, we will persuade him and keep you out of trouble."
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|That probably took a great deal of persuasion, indeed. The penalty in the Roman army for sleeping on watch was [[capital punishment|death]].
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|The penalty in the Roman army for sleeping on watch in a military situation was [[capital punishment|death]], so the soldiers would have welcomed the protection against punishment.  Whether that harsh penalty would have applied to soldiers in this context is less clear.
 
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|So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.
 
|So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.
 
|So they took the bribe, and did as they had been instructed. This tale is commonly told among the Jews to this day.
 
|So they took the bribe, and did as they had been instructed. This tale is commonly told among the Jews to this day.
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|By "this day" is meant not only the time of the writing of the Gospel of Matthew, but the time of this work, in 2009 AD.
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|"σήμερον" can be translated as "this day" or even "this very day."
 
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