Luke 24:11 Meaning and Explanation
“And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.”
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Read Full Chapter →The apostles dismiss the women's report as nonsense and do not believe them.
What Does Luke 24:11 Mean?
The women deliver the message, and the apostles — the very men who heard Jesus predict all this — dismiss it. Luke's word for idle tales means empty talk, nonsense, the babble of the delirious.
The church's first leaders were not gullible men primed to believe; they were skeptics who had to be convinced against their settled grief. Their unbelief, honestly recorded, becomes a strange comfort: the resurrection withstood the doubts of those closest to it. And there is a warning here too — beware dismissing a true word from God because of who carries it or how impossible it sounds.
Luke 24:11 in the Original Language
leros (λῆρος), 'idle tales' -- nonsense, empty talk.
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What does Luke 24:11 mean?
The apostles dismiss the women's report as nonsense and do not believe them.