SAINTS ON THE RESURRECTION SKEPTICS

John Chrysostom put what is involved here plausible: “How could the disciples. . . have been able to persuade the multitude?  By saying what?  By doing what?  Seeing him yet alive and merely seized, they had fled; and after his death were they  likely to speak boldly in His behalf, unless He had risen again?”
Matthew Henry calls the leaders “suspicions groundless because when the disciples had not had the courage to own him while he lived…it was not likely that his death should put courage into such cowards.”
John Calvin, “Christ’s resurrection would have been more obscure or, at any rate, their ability to deny it would have been all the greater, if they had not taken such care to place witnesses over the tomb.”