Matthew 28:17

They worshipped him] Certainly with divine worship: see John 20:28. But some doubted] or, as the Gk. may perhaps be more correctly translated, 'but others doubted,' i.e. not the Eleven, but others who were present.

The doubt may have arisen from the change which had passed over our Lord's now glorified body (Mark 16:13; Luke 24:16; John 21:4), but more probably from the reason which Paley gives: 'Christ appeared first at a distance; the greater part of the company, the moment that they saw Him, worshipped, but some as yet, i.e. upon this first distant view of His person, doubted; whereupon Christ came up to them (Matthew 28:18) and spake to them, etc': the doubt, therefore, was a doubt only at first, for ä moment, and upon His being seen at a distance, and was afterwards dispelled by His nearer approach, and by His entering into conversation with them.