Were they all finally convinced of his resurrection?
John: They were.
Matthew: They were not.
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When he appeared to them did they know that he must rise from the dead?
John: “For as yet they knew not that he must rise from the dead” ([xx, 9]).
This cannot be reconciled with the Synoptics, who state that during his ministry he had acquainted them with it. “From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day” ([Matthew xvi, 21]; [Mark viii, 31]; [Luke ix, 22]).