Something as completely unexpected and indeed unimaginable as the resurrection of Jesus provoked the predictable ways to defuse the story. There were those of course who had everything to lose if word got round about the resurrection - politically, culturally, religiously. The story had to be killed and “plausible deniability” had been the way forward for those threatened by and afraid of this story getting around. But, as two thousand years is testimony to, the story has never been suppressed.