# the Preparation

This is the day that people got everything ready for the Sabbath.

# were gathered together with Pilate

"met with Pilate"

# when that deceiver was alive

"when Jesus, the deceiver, was alive"

# he said, 'After three days will I rise again.'

This is a quotation within a quotation. It can be stated as an indirect quotation. AT: "he said that after three days he will rise again" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotesinquotes]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotations]])

# command that the tomb be made secure

This can be stated in active form. AT: "command your soldiers to guard the tomb" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])

# the third day

(See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-ordinal]])

# steal him

"steal his body"

# say to the people, 'He has risen from the dead ones,' and the last

This is a quotation within a quotation. It can be stated as an indirect quotation. AT: "tell the people that he has risen from the dead and the last" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotesinquotes]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotations]])

# and the last deception will be worse than the first

The understood information can be stated clearly. AT: "if they deceive people by saying that, it will be worse than the way he deceived people before by saying that he was the Christ" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-ellipsis]])