And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.

And they kept the word to themselves; questioning together what that should mean, when he shall be risen from the dead.

So they kept the matter to themselves, although frequently asking one another what was meant by the rising from the dead.

And they kept the saying, questioning among themselves what the coming back from the dead might be.

And they kept the word to themselves, arguing about what "after he will have risen from the dead" might mean.

They seized on these words and discussed with one another what this 'rising from the dead' meant.

And they kept that saying - This verse is wanting in two MSS. and one of the Itala.
What the rising from the dead should mean - Ὁταν εκ νεκρων αναϚῃ, When he should arise from the dead, is the reading of D, six others, Syriac, all the Persic, Vulgate, all the Itala, and Jerome. Griesbach approves of it. There is nothing that answers to this verse either in Matthew or Luke.

And they (d) kept that saying with themselves, (e) questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.
(d) Though just barely as it were.
(e) They did not question together concerning the general resurrection, which will be in the latter day, but they did not understand what he meant when he spoke of his own special resurrection.

And they kept that saying with themselves,.... "They retained it in their own mind", as the Persic version renders it; "they kept it close", as Luke says, Luke 9:36, among themselves, and acquainted no man with it: and which refers either to the whole of Christ's charge, relating to the vision on the mount; or else only to what he said about his resurrection from the dead; and which they took notice of particularly, and laid hold upon, as the word will bear to be rendered; and so the Ethiopic version does render it, "and they observed his saying"; what he last said concerning the son of man's rising from the dead;
questioning with one other what the rising from the dead should mean: they inquired, disputed, and reasoned with one another, what should be the meaning of such an expression: not that they were ignorant of the general resurrection of the dead; for this was the hope of Israel, and the general sense of the Jewish nation: but they did not know what he meant by his particular rising from the dead: whether he meant it in a literal sense, which supposed his death; and that though he had lately told them of, they knew not how to reconcile to the notions they had of a long and flourishing temporal kingdom of the Messiah; or whether he meant a and interest, in such manner as they expected.