Luc 24:11

11 Ils tinrent ces discours pour des rêveries, et ils ne crurent pas ces femmes.

Luc 24:11 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 24:11

And their words seemed to them as idle tales
As fabulous things, as mere whims, and the fancies of their brains: "as a dream", according to the Persic version; or, "as a jest", as the Arabic version renders it. They looked upon them as mere deceptions and delusions, and not real things; the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions read, "these words"; what they related concerning what they saw, and heard, at the sepulchre:

and they believed them not:
for they had no thought, nor expectation of Christ's rising from the dead; they did not know that he was to rise again, according to the Scriptures; nor did they understand him when he told them of his rising again; and had no faith in it, nor hope concerning it, and could give no credit to it, when it was told them; and the Arabic version reads, "they did not believe it"; the word or report which the women delivered to them.

Luc 24:11 In-Context

9 A leur retour du sépulcre, elles annoncèrent toutes ces choses aux onze, et à tous les autres.

10 Celles qui dirent ces choses aux apôtres étaient Marie de Magdala, Jeanne, Marie, mère de Jacques, et les autres qui étaient avec elles.

11 Ils tinrent ces discours pour des rêveries, et ils ne crurent pas ces femmes.

12 Mais Pierre se leva, et courut au sépulcre. S'étant baissé, il ne vit que les linges qui étaient à terre; puis il s'en alla chez lui, dans l'étonnement de ce qui était arrivé.

13 Et voici, ce même jour, deux disciples allaient à un village nommé Emmaüs, éloigné de Jérusalem de soixante stades;