<p>28:15&nbsp;<i>So they took the money and did as they were told-&nbsp;</i>The Greek&nbsp;<i>didasko</i>&nbsp;means 'taught' as AV, and is an unusual word choice here. Perhaps the idea is that they were taught an official explanation which they memorized and were to trot out each time the issue of the empty tomb was raised. Early Christian converts had to memorize a Gospel record by heart- they were taught <i>didasko</i> the message of the empty tomb and repeated it. The same word is used just five verses later in :20, where the disciples are commanded to go and teach <i>didasko&nbsp;</i>again the good news of the empty tomb to the whole world. And the soldiers did the same, spreading the same reality an empty tomb but with a different explanation. This connects with the observations made on :11&nbsp;<i>While they were going</i>&nbsp;that there were two groups of people telling the same message- the tomb was empty. But the Gospel preachers were paralleled, as it were, by another group of messengers whose message was identical but freighted with concern that it&nbsp;<i>not</i>&nbsp;be believed.&nbsp;</p><p><i>And this story has been spread among the Jews to this day-&nbsp;</i>This is another allusion to the great commission; see on&nbsp;<i>Did as they were told</i>. As the story Gk.&nbsp;<i>logos</i> of the empty tomb was spread by the soldiers &quot;among the Jews&quot;, so was the Christian account of the empty tomb spread &quot;among the Jews to this day&quot;. The Greek word for &quot;spread&quot; is only elsewhere used about the spreading of the&nbsp;<i>fame&nbsp;</i>of Jesus. This is perhaps an allusion to the spreading of Matthew's Gospel record amongst the Jews right up until the day when it was written down- &quot;this day&quot;.&nbsp;</p>