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Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

16:14 hardness of heart. The Greek word for “hardness of heart” is sklerokardia, from which is derived our English word “cardiosclerosis.” There are some forty references in the Bible to what may be called spiritual cardiosclerosis, the first in connection with Pharaoh’s hardness of heart (Exodus 4:21). We are warned: “To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts” (Hebrews 4:7), in the final such reference.


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