And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.

And these words appeared in their sight as idle talk; and they disbelieved them.

And these words seemed to them as idle tales; and they did not believe them.

And their words appeared in their eyes as an idle tale, and they disbelieved them.

and their sayings appeared before them as idle talk, and they were not believing them.

But the whole story seemed to them an idle tale; they could not believe the women.

But these words seemed foolish to them, and they had no belief in them.

But these words seemed to them a delusion. And so they did not believe them.

What they said seemed to the apostles mere nonsense, and they did not believe them.

And their words seemed to them as idle tales,.... As fabulous things, as mere whims, and the fancies of their brains: "as a dream", according to the Persic version; or, "as a jest", as the Arabic version renders it. They looked upon them as mere deceptions and delusions, and not real things; the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions read, "these words"; what they related concerning what they saw, and heard, at the sepulchre:
and they believed them not: for they had no thought, nor expectation of Christ's rising from the dead; they did not know that he was to rise again, according to the Scriptures; nor did they understand him when he told them of his rising again; and had no faith in it, nor hope concerning it, and could give no credit to it, when it was told them; and the Arabic version reads, "they did not believe it"; the word or report which the women delivered to them.