And they went home because they couldn't do anything else on the Sabbath. Mark's, the earliest gospel, doesn't go so far as John's with this longer, taller tale. Within thirty years of Jesus' death, the Community of the Resurrection was sufficiently strong in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia that a letter was warranted, either by the Apostle Peter, or in his name, to encourage the tender planting. They would have walked through Antioch, where the disciples were first called Christians, a name used only in this letter and in the Acts of the Apostles. The first Christian church was there, but it is a Muslim village now, though a well in the cave supplies holy water to both the followers of Jesus and those of Muhammad.
People wash with it and drink it, too.
Mass is said there on St. Peter's feast day. Some say the Greek is too elegant for a Galilean fisherman. The companion of Paul, who probably also loaned him some of his theology. I've helped Nicaraguan scriveners with their homework in the imperial tongue of English, and they have helped me tone up my tenses in Cristiano, as we call the Spanish langage here, when I want to write out my remarks. We choose our emperors now deliberately to dodder, so we can be amused by them and their grammar and hide the fact that they are indictable war criminals.