This continues the account of the events after the burial of Jesus.

## a guard ##

4 to 16 Roman soldiers

## sealing the stone ##

Possible meanings: 1) they put a cord around the stone and attached it to the rock wall on either side of the entrance to the tomb (see UDB) or 2) they put seals between the stone and the wall.

## placing the guard ##

"telling the soldiers to stand where they could keep people from touching the tomb"