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MARK 16:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Mark 16:13Mark 16:15
“Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.”
Later Jesus appeared to the Eleven as they were eating; he rebuked them for their lack of faith and their stubborn refusal to believe those who had seen him after he had risen — the appearance to the Eleven at the table (cf. Luke 24:36–49, John 20:19–23) includes a rebuke for the unbelief — the same stubborn-hearts language as Mark 8:17. The rebuke is not a rejection but a correction: the disciples who will be commissioned to proclaim the resurrection must themselves believe it.

Church Fathers on Mark 16:14

Mark, when about to finish his Gospel, relates the last appearance of our Lord to His disciples after His Resurrection, saying, 'For the last time He appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat.'

Gloss (Glossa Ordinaria) · medieval compilation

But He appeared when all the eleven were together, that all might be witnesses, and relate to all men what they had seen and heard in common.

Pseudo-Jerome · 5th century

But how was this done 'the last time?' The last occasion on which the Apostles saw the Lord upon earth happened forty days after the Resurrection; but would He then have upbraided them for not believing those who had seen Him risen, when they themselves had so often seen Him after His Resurrection? It remains therefore that we should understand that Mark wished to say it in few words, and said 'for the last time,' because it was the last time that He shewed Himself that day,…

Augustine · 4th century
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