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Source language
Original Greek   
λέγοντες· Εἴπατε ὅτι Οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ νυκτὸς ἐλθόντες ἔκλεψαν αὐτὸν ἡμῶν κοιμωμένων·
Greek - Transliteration via code library   
legontes* Eipate oti Oi mathetai autou nuktos elthontes eklepsan auton emon koimomenon*

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
dicentes dicite quia discipuli eius nocte venerunt et furati sunt eum nobis dormientibus

King James Variants
American King James Version   
Saying, Say you, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
Saying, Say this, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
Authorized (King James) Version   
saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
New King James Version   
saying, “Tell them, ‘His disciples came at night and stole Him away while we slept.’
21st Century King James Version   
saying, “Say ye, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him away while we slept.’

Other translations
American Standard Version   
saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
And they were saying to them, “Say, 'His disciples came and stole it in the night, while we slept'.”
Darby Bible Translation   
saying, Say that his disciples coming by night stole him while we were sleeping.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
Saying: Say you, His disciples came by night, and stole him away when we were asleep.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
and said, “Tell people, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.’
God's Word   
and told them to say that Jesus' disciples had come at night and had stolen his body while they were sleeping.
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
and told them, "Say this, 'His disciples came during the night and stole Him while we were sleeping.'
International Standard Version   
They said, "Say that Jesus' disciples came at night and stole him while you were sleeping.
NET Bible   
telling them, "You are to say, 'His disciples came at night and stole his body while we were asleep.'
New American Standard Bible   
and said, "You are to say, 'His disciples came by night and stole Him away while we were asleep.'
New International Version   
telling them, "You are to say, 'His disciples came during the night and stole him away while we were asleep.'
New Living Translation   
They told the soldiers, "You must say, 'Jesus' disciples came during the night while we were sleeping, and they stole his body.'
Webster's Bible Translation   
Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
Weymouth New Testament   
telling them to say, "His disciples came during the night and stole his body while we were asleep."
The World English Bible   
saying, "Say that his disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
EasyEnglish Bible   
They said to the soldiers, ‘When people ask you, you must say this: “Jesus' disciples came to the rock in the night and they took his body away. We were asleep when they did this.”
Young‘s Literal Translation   
saying, `Say ye, that his disciples having come by night, stole him -- we being asleep;
New Life Version   
They said, “Tell the people, ‘His followers came at night and took His body while we were sleeping.’
Revised Geneva Translation   
saying, “Say, ‘His disciples came by night and stole Him away while we slept.’
The Voice Bible   
and order them to say that the disciples had come in the middle of the night and had stolen Jesus’ corpse while they slept.
Living Bible   
A meeting of all the Jewish leaders was called, and it was decided to bribe the police to say they had all been asleep when Jesus’ disciples came during the night and stole his body.
New Catholic Bible   
and gave them this order: “Say, ‘His disciples came by night and stole the body while we were asleep.’
Legacy Standard Bible   
and said, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came by night and stole Him away while we were asleep.’
Jubilee Bible 2000   
saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night and stole him away while we slept.
Christian Standard Bible   
and told them, “Say this, ‘His disciples came during the night and stole him while we were sleeping.’
Amplified Bible © 1954   
And said, Tell people, His disciples came at night and stole Him away while we were sleeping.
New Century Version   
and said to them, “Tell the people that Jesus’ followers came during the night and stole the body while you were asleep.
The Message   
Meanwhile, the guards had scattered, but a few of them went into the city and told the high priests everything that had happened. They called a meeting of the religious leaders and came up with a plan: They took a large sum of money and gave it to the soldiers, bribing them to say, “His disciples came in the night and stole the body while we were sleeping.” They assured them, “If the governor hears about your sleeping on duty, we will make sure you don’t get blamed.” The soldiers took the bribe and did as they were told. That story, cooked up in the Jewish High Council, is still going around. * * *
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
and said, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came at night and stole him away while we were sleeping.’
Mounce Reverse Interlinear New Testament   
and told them, “You are to say, · ‘His disciples came by night and stole his body while we were sleeping.’
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
telling them, “You must say, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.’
New Matthew Bible   
saying, Say that his disciples came by night and stole him away while you slept.
Good News Translation®   
and said, “You are to say that his disciples came during the night and stole his body while you were asleep.
Wycliffe Bible   
and said, Say ye, that his disciples came by night, and have stolen him, while ye slept. [saying, Say ye, for his disciples came by night, and have stolen him, us sleeping.]
New Testament for Everyone   
“This,” they told them, “is what you are to say: ‘His disciples came in the night, while we were asleep, and stole him away.’
Contemporary English Version   
They said to the soldiers, “Tell everyone that Jesus' disciples came during the night and stole his body while you were asleep.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
and said, “Tell people, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.’
J.B. Phillips New Testament   
And while they were on their way, some of the sentries went into the city and reported to the chief priests everything that had happened. They got together with the elders, and after consultation gave the soldiers a considerable sum of money and told them, “Your story must be that his disciples came after dark, and stole him away while you were asleep. If by any chance this reaches the governor’s ears, we will put it right with him and see that you do not suffer for it.” So they took the money and obeyed their instructions. The story was spread and is current among the Jews to this day.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
telling them, “You must say, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.’
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
telling them, ‘You must say, “His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.”
Common English Bible © 2011   
They told them, “Say that Jesus’ disciples came at night and stole his body while you were sleeping.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
and said, “You say this, ‘His disciples came at night and stole Him while we were sleeping.’
English Standard Version Anglicised   
and said, “Tell people, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.’
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
telling them, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him while we were asleep.’
New American Standard Bible   
and said, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came at night and stole Him while we were asleep.’
The Expanded Bible   
and said to them, “Tell the people that Jesus’ ·followers [disciples] came during the night and stole ·the body [him away] while you were asleep.
Tree of Life Version   
saying, “Tell them, ‘His disciples came at night and stole Him away while we were sleeping.’
Revised Standard Version   
and said, “Tell people, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.’
New International Reader's Version   
They told the soldiers, “We want you to say, ‘His disciples came during the night. They stole his body while we were sleeping.’
BRG Bible   
Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
Complete Jewish Bible   
and said to them, “Tell people, ‘His talmidim came during the night and stole his body while we were sleeping.’
Worldwide English (New Testament)   
They said, `Tell the people, "His disciples came by night and took away the body while we were sleeping."
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
telling them, ‘You must say, “His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.”
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
And said, You are to say, His talmidim came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.
Names of God Bible   
and told them to say that Yeshua’s disciples had come at night and had stolen his body while they were sleeping.
Modern English Version   
saying, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came by night and stole Him away while we were sleeping.’
Easy-to-Read Version   
and said to them, “Tell the people that Jesus’ followers came during the night and stole the body while you were sleeping.
International Children’s Bible   
They said to the soldiers, “Tell the people that Jesus’ followers came during the night and stole the body while you were asleep.
Lexham English Bible   
telling them, “Say ‘His disciples came during the night and stole him while we were sleeping.’
New International Version - UK   
telling them, ‘You are to say, “His disciples came during the night and stole him away while we were asleep.”
Disciples Literal New Testament   
saying, “Say that ‘His disciples, having come by night, stole Him while we were sleeping’.