His disciples came by night. — The story was on the face of it self-contradictory. How could they tell, if they had been asleep, who had stolen the body? All that they could know was that they had fallen asleep, and that when they awoke the sepulchre was open and empty.
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Matthew 28:13
13 Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.