And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?
Ver. 17. That ye have one to another] Gr. that ye toss one to another, as a ball is tossed between two or more. αντιβαλλετε, tu cum duo pila lusitaut.
And are sad] Christ loves not to see his saints sad; he questions them as Joseph did his prisoners, "Wherefore look ye so sadly today?" Genesis 40:7, and as the king did Nehemiah, Luke 2:2 .