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Mar_16:14. Ύστερον ] not found elsewhere in Mark, does not mean: at last (Vulgate, Luther, Beza, Schulthess, and many others), although, according to our text, this appearance was the last (comp. Mat_21:37), but: afterwards, subsequently (Mat_4:2; Mat_21:29; Joh_13:36), which certainly is a very indefinite specification.
The narrative of this appearance confuses very different elements with one another. It is manifestly (see Mar_16:15) the appearance which according to Mat_28:16 took place on the mountain in Galilee; but ἀνακειμένοις (as they reclined at table) introduces an altogether different scenery and locality, and perhaps arose from a confusion with the incident contained[185] in Luk_24:42 f., or Act_1:4 (according to the view of συναλιζόμενος as convescens); while also the reproaching of the unbelief is here out of place, and appears to have been introduced from some confusion with the history of Thomas, John 20, and with the notice contained in Luk_24:25; for which the circumstance mentioned at the appearance on the mountain, Mat_28:17 ( οἱ δὲ ἐδίστασαν ), furnished a certain basis.
ΑὐΤΟῖς ΤΟῖς ἝΝΔΕΚΑ ] ipsis undecim. Observe the ascending gradation in the three appearances—(1) to Mary; (2) to two of His earlier companions; (3) to the eleven themselves. Of other appearances in the circle of the eleven our author knows nothing; to him this was the only one. See Mar_16:19.
ὅτι ] equivalent to ΕἸς ἘΚΕῖΝΟ ὍΤΙ , Luk_16:3; Joh_2:18; Joh_9:17; Joh_11:51; Joh_16:9; 2Co_1:18; 2Co_11:10.
[185] Beza, Calovius, and others wrongly explain ἀνακειμ . as: una sedentibus. Comp. Mar_14:18.