And it was the death of something in each of them too. They were all deserters. We are told that they gathered in a room, hiding from the authorities after the death of Jesus, twelve isolated individuals in the same place, each lost in their own thoughts, like a bunch of athletes each sure that they are personally the cause for the total team loss. It is no place to be for long. And then something happens to them.
Women come with a report.
It is not what it seems. A friend of mine tried out for the Army Rangers when he was in his twenties. Part of the training required small teams to work with a map and radio and find their way through very difficult terrain to different places. It went on for several days, with hardly any sleep, very little food. The object was to get the soldiers disoriented, tired, and angry to see how they would respond under battle type stress.