the dead. No Article = dead people. See note on Mat_17:9, and App-139.
remembered. Compare Joh_2:17. They remembered it after His resurrection, and believed it. Contrast His enemies. See note on Joh_2:19.
said = spake. Greek. lego, as in Joh_2:21.
believed.App-150. See note on Joh_1:7.
the scripture: i.e. that the scripture was true. Here, probably, Psa_16:10. The word graphe Occurs twelve times in John: here; Joh_5:39; Joh_7:38, Joh_7:42; Joh_10:35; Joh_13:18; Joh_17:12; Joh_19:24, Joh_19:28, Joh_19:36, Joh_19:37; Joh_20:9.