John Gills Exposition of the Bible 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... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 20:9
For as yet they knew not the Scripture ,.... Meaning not some particular passage of Scripture, but the writings of the Old Testament in general, and the various places in it, which spoke of the resurrection of Christ, either in a way of type, or prophecy; such as Genesis 22:3 and though our Lord had often referred to some of them, at least as in Matthew 12:40 yet such was the dulness of the disciples, or such their prejudices in favour of the Messiah being to continue, and set up a... read more