John 20:10

Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene

10 Then the disciples went back to their homes.

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 The disciple who had reached the tomb first also went inside. He saw and believed.
9 They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.
10 Then the disciples went back to their homes.
11 But Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she cried, she bent over to look into the tomb.
12 She saw two angels dressed in white. They were seated where Jesus' body had been. One of them was where Jesus' head had been laid. The other sat where his feet had been placed.
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