Luke Chapter 24 verse 11 Holy Bible
And these words appeared in their sight as idle talk; and they disbelieved them.
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But these words seemed foolish to them, and they had no belief in them.
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And their words appeared in their eyes as an idle tale, and they disbelieved them.
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And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.
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These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn't believe them.
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and their sayings appeared before them as idle talk, and they were not believing them.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not. The utter incredulity of the friends of Jesus when these reports of his resurrection were brought to them is remarkable when contrasted with the evident dread of the Sanhedrin that something of grave moment would happen after three days had elapsed. The disciples were evidently amazed at their Master's rising from the dead. The chief priests and Jewish leaders would apparently have been surprised if something startling had not happened (see Matthew 27:63, etc., where an account is given of the measures these able but unprincipled men took, in their short-sighted wisdom, to counteract any fulfilment of the Crucified One's word - a fulfilment they evidently looked forward to as to no improbable contingency). The utter surprise of the disciples at the Resurrection, which in their Gospels they truthfully acknowledge, is no small side-proof of the genuineness of these records of the event.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) Idle tales.--The one Greek word which is thus rendered occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. It is applied strictly to the trifling, half-idiotic babble of dotage.
