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0. — [Told aU these things, dc.'] Augustine remarks that these women were " the first preachers of the resurrection of Christ."
[To all the rest!] Who these were we do npt kDow. It is evident that our Lord had other disciples in Jerusalem beside the eleven. On the day of His ascension the number of names was a " hundred and twenty."
10. — [Other women.l Who these were we do not know. They were probably the same spoken of in a former place, who ministered to our I^rd. (Luke viii. 2.)
1 1. — [Idle tales.'] The Greek word so rendered is only found here. According to Parkhurst it means, " Words of no value ; idle nonsense."
1 2. — [Peter!] We can well understand that Peter would be in a peculiarly sensitive and anxious state of conscience. On the very chance of the report being true he goes to see for himself.
[The linen clothes laid by themselves.'] All writers on the resurrection of Christ, call attention with much justice to this fact. If the body of our Lord had been stolen from the grave by his friends, it is most improbable that those who stole it would have taken the trouble to remove the linen clothes and wrap them together in an orderly manner.
[Departed.., wondering in himself.] It is the opinion of those who are best judges, that these words would be better rendered, ** departed to his own house wondering." (See John xx. 10.)