“And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers,”
King James Version (KJV)
28:10 Go tell my brethren - I still own them as such, though they so lately disowned and forsook me.
28:13 Say, his disciples came by night, and stole him while we slept - Is it possible, that any man of sense should digest this poor, shallow inconsistency? If ye were awake, why did you let the disciples steal him? If asleep, how do you know they did?
Mt 28:12 They. The chief priests. Were assembled with the elders. Probably a secret meeting of the leading members of the Sanhedrin. They had gone too far into crime to stop.