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These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn`t believe them.
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More Than Just Doubt
The apostles' reaction was not simple skepticism. Commentators explain the Greek phrase for "idle talk" describes delirious, nonsensical babbling, like from someone hysterical or senile. Their disbelief was persistent and profound, showing just how unbelievable the news of the resurrection initially seemed even to Jesus' closest followers.
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As idle talk (ως ληρος). Old word for nonsense, only here in the N.T. Medical writers used it for the wild talk of those in deliri…
19th Century
Anglican
Idle tales.—The one Greek word rendered this way occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. It is applied strictly to the trifling,…
Baptist
And returned from the sepulcher, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest. It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary th…
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At this point Luke reports the names of the women (cf. 8:1–3). While the witness of women was not acceptable in those days, nevertheless Luke recor…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And their words seemed to them as idle tales As fabulous things, as mere whims, and the fancies of their brains: "as…
Presbyterian
See the affection and respect the women showed to Christ, after he was dead and buried. Observe their surprise when they found the stone rolled awa…
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