Matthew 28:17
New International Version
When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted.

New Living Translation
When they saw him, they worshiped him—but some of them doubted!

English Standard Version
And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted.

Berean Standard Bible
When they saw Him, they worshiped Him, but some doubted.

Berean Literal Bible
And having seen Him they worshiped; but some doubted.

King James Bible
And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.

New King James Version
When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some doubted.

New American Standard Bible
And when they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some were doubtful.

NASB 1995
When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some were doubtful.

NASB 1977
And when they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some were doubtful.

Legacy Standard Bible
And when they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some doubted.

Amplified Bible
And when they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some doubted [that it was really He].

Christian Standard Bible
When they saw him, they worshiped, but some doubted.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When they saw Him, they worshiped, but some doubted.

American Standard Version
And when they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some of them doubted.

Contemporary English Version
They saw him and worshiped him, but some of them doubted.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And seeing them they adored: but some doubted.

English Revised Version
And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When they saw him, they bowed down in worship, though some had doubts.

Good News Translation
When they saw him, they worshiped him, even though some of them doubted.

International Standard Version
When they saw him, they worshipped him, though some had doubts.

Literal Standard Version
and having seen Him, they worshiped Him, but some wavered.

Majority Standard Bible
When they saw Him, they worshiped Him, but some doubted.

New American Bible
When they saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted.

NET Bible
When they saw him, they worshiped him, but some doubted.

New Revised Standard Version
When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted.

New Heart English Bible
When they saw him, they bowed down to him, but some doubted.

Webster's Bible Translation
And when they saw him, they worshiped him: but some doubted.

Weymouth New Testament
There they saw Him and prostrated themselves before Him. Yet some doubted.

World English Bible
When they saw him, they bowed down to him; but some doubted.

Young's Literal Translation
and having seen him, they bowed to him, but some did waver.

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Context
The Great Commission
16Meanwhile, the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain Jesus had designated. 17When they saw Him, they worshiped Him, but some doubted. 18Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.…

Cross References
Mark 16:11
And when they heard that Jesus was alive and she had seen Him, they did not believe it.

Mark 16:13
And they went back and reported it to the rest, but they did not believe them either.

Mark 16:14
Later, as they were eating, Jesus appeared to the Eleven and rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen.

Acts 1:3
After His suffering, He presented Himself to them with many convincing proofs that He was alive. He appeared to them over a span of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.


Treasury of Scripture

And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.

when.

Matthew 16:28
Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

worshipped.

Matthew 28:9
And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.

Psalm 2:12
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Psalm 45:11
So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.

but.

1 Corinthians 15:6
After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.

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Matthew 28
1. Christ's resurrection is declared by an angel to the women.
9. He himself appears unto them.
11. The chief priests pay the soldiers to say that he was stolen out of his tomb.
16. Christ appears to his disciples,
18. and sends them to baptize and teach all nations.














(17) They worshipped him--i.e., fell prostrate at His feet. The act, as has been said, was not new in itself, but it seems certain that our Lord's manifestations of His Presence after the Resurrection had made the faith of the disciples stronger and clearer (comp. John 20:28), and so the act acquired a new significance.

Some doubted.--It seems hard at first to conceive how those who had been present in the upper chamber at Jerusalem (John 20:19-26) could still feel doubt; but the narrative of John 21:4 throws some light upon it. There was something mysterious and supernatural in the manifestation of the glorified body--outlines, at first indistinct and scarcely recognised, and then the whole form seen as it had been seen in life. The more devoted and loving disciples were probably, here as before, the first to recognise their Lord. Others questioned whether it was a phantom (comp. Notes on Matthew 14:26) or a reality.

Verse 17. - They worshipped him. Evidently here they, or the majority of those present (for it is plain that others beside the apostles were there), adored him as God and Lord. This is the first time that this action of supreme worship is mentioned in connection with the disciples, though the women had offered the same homage to him (ver. 9). But some doubted (οἱ δὲ - without οἱ μὲν - ἐδίστασαν). (For the verb, comp. Matthew 14:31.) The doubters could not have been any of the eleven, for they had seen the Lord more than once at Jerusalem, and had had indubitable proofs that he had risen from the dead, and was no mere spirit or spiritual appearance, but possessed of his former body, with new powers, faculties, and laws. Those who for the moment doubted did not hesitate to acknowledge his resurrection, but his identity. They were, perhaps, at a distance. Christ may have appeared surrounded with heavenly glory; at any rate, in a shape, or vesture, or with an aspect with which they were not familiar; hence in this majestic form, they failed to recognize the "despised and rejected of men," the lowly Jesus whom they had known (cf. John 21:4).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
When
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

they saw
ἰδόντες (idontes)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3708: Properly, to stare at, i.e. to discern clearly; by extension, to attend to; by Hebraism, to experience; passively, to appear.

Him,
αὐτὸν (auton)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

they worshiped Him,
προσεκύνησαν (prosekynēsan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 4352: From pros and a probable derivative of kuon; to fawn or crouch to, i.e. prostrate oneself in homage.

but
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

some
οἱ (hoi)
Article - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

doubted.
ἐδίστασαν (edistasan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1365: To waver, doubt, hesitate. From dis; properly, to duplicate, i.e. to waver.


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