The high church leaders, protecting themselves and their position in the synagog and the community, could not let the truth of Jesus be known. Pay off the guards and give them a story to tell with the promise to pay off the governor it is got back to him that the guards "fell asleep".
The Red Letter challenge ( red letter challenge.org) would say that there is always some group or another that wants you to believe that they know best what JESUS said and you should listen and follow that interpretation; read the WORD yourself- GROW in the WORD yourself- Defend the Word in a secular world