This is now the third time that Jesus shewed himself to his disciples, after that he was risen from the dead.
Ver. 14. This is now the third time, &c.] Adam died, and we hear no more of him; not so the second Adam. "If a man die, shall he live again?" Job 14:14. Not till the general resurrection surely. Many devices there are in the minds of some, that there shall be a first resurrection of the martyrs only, and that they shall reign on earth a thousand years. Alsted saith, this thousand years shall begin in the year 1694. But these, saith a divine, are but the mistakes of some high expressions in Scripture; which describe the judgments poured out upon God's enemies in making a way to the Jews' conversion by the pattern of the last judgment. (Cotton upon the Seven Vials.)