John 20:10

10 Then the followers went back home.

John 20:10 Meaning and Commentary

John 20:10

Then the disciples
Peter and John, after they had seen and examined things, and satisfied themselves as much as they could:

went away again unto their own home;
or "to themselves", as in the original text, and so the Vulgate Latin reads it; not that the meaning is, that they had been out of their minds, and proper exercise of them, and now came to themselves; but they returned to their own company, to the rest of the disciples they left at home, who were as themselves. The Syriac renders it, (Nwhtkwdl) , "to their own place", and so the Arabic and Persic versions; the place from whence they came, and where the rest were assembled together, to pray, converse, and consult together, what was to be done at this juncture.

John 20:10 In-Context

8 Then the other follower, who had reached the tomb first, also went in. He saw and believed.

9 (They did not yet understand from the Scriptures that Jesus must rise from the dead.)

10 Then the followers went back home.

11 But Mary stood outside the tomb, crying. As she was crying, she bent down and looked inside the tomb.

12 She saw two angels dressed in white, sitting where Jesus' body had been, one at the head and one at the feet.