What does Matthew 27:62 Mean?

Verse Meaning

The day to which Matthew referred was the Sabbath. He probably referred to it as he did to avoid the confusion that often arises when describing the Sabbaths associated with feasts. The Sanhedrin members could confer with Pilate if they did not have to travel more than a Sabbath day"s journey and if they did not have to enter his residence (cf. John 18:28). However they could hardly do everything else they did without violating the Sabbath, something they hypocritically had charged Jesus with doing. [source][source]

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Context Summary

Fear not to entrust yourself to God in death. If you yield up your spirit and commend it to the Father's hands, He will provide for it and for your body also. He has His Josephs everywhere. He will provide loving hands for the body, which was the shrine and casket of the precious jewel that He bought at so great a cost. Precious in His sight is the death of His saints, Psalms 116:15.

The kings and princes of this world set themselves to guard the sepulcher of the Son of God by sealing-wax and sentries. They might as well have endeavored to restrain the bursting life of spring. Said the King of Terrors to Captain Corruption, "Take care to keep this Man's body fast." But what did this avail, when it had been ordained that he should not stay in Hades, nor even see corruption? Whatever your foes may do against you will not avail, if only you wait patiently for God. See Psalms 40:1-17. [source]

Chapter Summary: Matthew 27

¹  Jesus is delivered bound to Pilate
³  Judas hangs himself
¹⁹  Pilate, admonished of his wife,
²⁰  and being urged by the multitude, washes his hands, and releases Barabbas
²⁷  Jesus is mocked and crowned with thorns;
³³  crucified;
³⁹  reviled;
⁵⁰  dies, and is buried;
⁶²  his tomb is sealed and watched