Matthew 28:13

His disciples came by night. Had this charge been true, the priests, the men who fabricated it, would probably have been the first to demand severe punishment for the soldiers involved in the supposed case of negligence. Instead, they rewarded the soldiers handsomely. Furthermore, the fact that the disciples utterly disbelieved in the face of repeated reports of the resurrection (Mark 16:11; Luke 24:11; John 20:24, 25) eliminates the faintest possibility that they might have conceived a plot to remove the body and announce publicly that Jesus had risen. Also, the utter panic that took possession of them in the garden (Matt. 26:56), and Peter’s fear of detection during the trial (vs. 69–74), preclude the possibility that any of them would have dared to pass the Roman guards, even though sleeping, break the Roman seal, roll away the stone, and carry off the body of Jesus.

While we slept. Death was the Roman penalty for permitting a prisoner to escape. Knowing this, the guard would not likely have slept. Furthermore, it is almost inconceivable that all the soldiers should have fallen asleep at once and should have remained asleep during the removal of the stone and of the body of Jesus. Finally, if the soldiers had been asleep when the body was removed, how could they have known who removed it? From every angle the tale invented by the Jewish leaders presents impossible difficulties. It is inconsistent with itself.