Luca 24:11

11 E quelle parole parvero loro un vaneggiare, e non prestaron fede alle donne.

Luca 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.

Luca 24:11 In-Context

9 e tornate dal sepolcro, annunziarono tutte queste cose agli undici e a tutti gli altri.

10 Or quelle che dissero queste cose agli apostoli erano: Maria Maddalena, Giovanna, Maria madre di Giacomo, e le altre donne che eran con loro.

11 E quelle parole parvero loro un vaneggiare, e non prestaron fede alle donne.

12 Ma Pietro, levatosi, corse al sepolcro; ed essendosi chinato a guardare, vide le sole lenzuola; e se ne andò maravigliandosi fra se stesso di quel che era avvenuto.

13 Ed ecco, due di loro se ne andavano in quello stesso giorno a un villaggio nominato Emmaus, distante da Gerusalemme sessanta stadi;