Grieving Mourned Mourning News Reported Sorrowing Tidings Weeping Wept
16:10 [And] she went. While she was going to tell the disciples, Jesus appeared to the other women, who had started before on the same errand (Mt 28:9-10).
16:10 Lu 24:9; John 20:18.
16:9-13 Better news cannot be brought to disciples in tears, than to tell them of Christ's resurrection. And we should study to comfort disciples that are mourners, by telling them whatever we have seen of Christ. It was a wise providence that the proofs of Christ's resurrection were given gradually, and admitted cautiously, that the assurance with which the apostles preached this doctrine afterwards might the more satisfy. Yet how slowly do we admit the consolations which the word of God holds forth! Therefore while Christ comforts his people, he often sees it needful to rebuke and correct them for hardness of heart in distrusting his promise, as well as in not obeying his holy precepts.
Grieving Mourned Mourning News Reported Sorrowing Tidings Weeping Wept Word
Grieving Mourned Mourning News Reported Sorrowing Tidings Weeping Wept Word
