{Sir, we remember} (kurie, emnesth(886d)en). This was the
next day, on our Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, the day after the
Preparation ( Mt 27:62 ). Ingressive aorist indicative, we have
just recalled. It is objected that the Jewish rulers would know
nothing of such a prediction, but in  Mt 12:40  he expressly made
it to them. Meyer scouts as unhistorical legend the whole story
that Christ definitely foretold his resurrection on the third
day. But that is to make legendary much of the Gospels and to
limit Jesus to a mere man. The problem remains why the disciples
forgot and the Jewish leaders remembered. But that is probably
due on the one hand to the overwhelming grief of the disciples
coupled with the blighting of all their hopes of a political
Messiah in Jesus, and on the other hand to the keen nervous fear
of the leaders who dreaded the power of Jesus though dead. They
wanted to make sure of their victory and prevent any possible
revival of this pernicious heresy. {That deceiver} (ekeinos ho
planos) they call him, a vagabond wanderer (planos) with a
slur in the use of {that} (ekeinos), a picturesque sidelight on
their intense hatred of and fear of Jesus.