They worshipped him. — These words also are absent from most of the best MSS. If they stand as part of the text, we must remember that they describe the attitude of prostrate adoration.
With great joy. — Now, at last, the disciples found the fulfilment of their Lord’s promise that “their sorrow should be turned into joy,” and that joy — the joy of knowing that their Lord and their Friend was at the right hand of the Father — was one which no man could take from them (John 16:20; John 16:22).