Mark 16:13

they went and told it unto the residue No sooner did they recognise our Lord in the breaking of the bread (Luke 24:35), and He had vanished out of their sight (Luke 24:31), than they returned in haste to Jerusalem, ascended to the Upper Room, found ten of the Apostles met together (Luke 24:33), and whereas they thought they alone were the bearers of joyful tidings, they were themselves greeted with joyful tidings, "The Lord has risen indeed, and appeared unto Simon" (Luke 24:34; 1 Corinthians 15:5). When this appearance was vouchsafed to St Peter we are not told. It certainly occurred after the return from the sepulchre, but whether beforeor afterthe journey to Emmaus cannot be determined.

neither believed they them The Ten, as we have just now seen, announced that the Lord had appeared to Simon, and this they at the time believed. When the two disciples arrive, they announce that He had appeared to themalso. Unable to comprehend this new mode of existence on the part of their risen Lord, that He could be now here and now there, they were filled with doubts. They had refused to believe the evidence of Mary Magdalene (Mark 16:11), and even now hesitation possessed them, and they could not give credence to the word of the two disciples. The Evangelists multiply proofs of the slowness of the Apostles to accept a truth so strange and unprecedented as their Lord's resurrection, and that not to a continuous sojourn, as in the case of Lazarus, but to a form of life which was manifestedonly from time to time, and was invested with new powers, new properties, new attributes. The Resurrection, it is to be remembered, was unlike (a) any of the recorded miracles of raising from the dead, (b) any of the legends of Greece or Rome. It was "not a restoration to the old life, to its wants, to its inevitable close, but the revelation of a new life, foreshadowing new powers of action and a new mode of being." See Westcott's Gospel of the Resurrection, pp. 154 160.