they went out quickly At present the holy women were over-whelmed with alarm at the sight they had witnessed and the words they had heard.

they trembled Literally, for trembling and amazement possessed them, or as Wyclif renders it, "forsoþe drede and quakynge hadde assaylid hem." The original word = "amazement," has been already the subject of comment above, ch. Mark 5:42. The word rendered "trembling" occurs nowhere else in the Four Gospels.

neither said they any thing to any man That is, on their way to the Holy City they did not open their lips to any passers by they chanced to meet. Joy opened them freely enough afterwards to the Apostles (Matthew 28:8).

for they were afraid In a tumult of rapture and alarm they fled back from the tomb towards the Holy City. The occurrence of the morning was so new to them, great, and unheard of, that they ventured not as yet to publish it.

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