John 20:10

10 Therefore the disciples went again to themselves.

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 Therefore then [and] that disciple that came first to the grave, entered, and saw, and believed.
9 For they knew not yet the scripture, that it behooved him to rise again from death. [+Forsooth they knew not yet the scripture, for it behooved him to rise again from dead.]
10 Therefore the disciples went again to themselves.
11 But Mary stood at the grave withoutforth weeping. And while she wept, she bowed her(self), and beheld forth into the grave.
12 And she saw two angels sitting in white, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus was laid.
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