Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn’t enter in.
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Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn’t enter in.
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And he stouped doune and sawe the lynnen clothes lyinge yet wet he not in.
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And he stouped downe, and sawe the linnen clothes lying: yet went he not in.
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Passages linked to John 20:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- John 19:40 So they took Jesus’ body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.
- John 11:44 He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Free him, and let him go.”
- John 20:11 But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb,
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 5. And seeth the linen clothes lying. The linen…
5. And seeth the linen clothes lying. The linen clothes might be regarded as the spoils, intended to lead to the belief of Christ’s resurrection; for it was not probable that his body had been stripped naked, in order that it might be removed to another place. This would not have been done by a friend, nor even by an enemy.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 5 And he stooping down, and looking in, saw…
5 And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.
Ver. 5. Yet went he not in] He dared not; so some fearful are afraid of every step, saying, as Caesar at Rubicon, Yet we may go back; and as the king of Navarre told Beza, that he would launch no further into the sea, than he might be sure to return safe to the haven. Petago se non ira commissurus esset quin, quando liberet, pedem referre posset.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain John stooped down and looked into the sepulchre, and…
John stooped down and looked into the sepulchre, and saw the linen clothes lying, but he would not adventure to go in.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he stooping down and looking in,.... That is,…
And he stooping down and looking in,.... That is, John; when he came to the sepulchre, stooped down to look into it, and see what he could see; he only went into the court, or stood upon the floor, where the bearers used to set down the bier, before they put the corpse into one of the graves in the sepulchre, which were four cubits lower; See Gill on Mar 16:5. Hence he was obliged to stoop down, ere he could see anything within: when he
saw the linen clothes lying; in which the body had been wrapped, but that itself not there:
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yet went he not in; to the sepulchre itself, but waited in the court or porch, till Peter came; and perhaps might be timorous and fearful of going into such a place alone; the Arabic version reads it, "he dared not go in".
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 5. Went he not in.] Why? Because he…
Verse 5. Went he not in.] Why? Because he was fully satisfied that the body was not there. But why did he not seize upon the linen clothes, and keep them as a most precious relic? Because he had too much religion and too much sense; and the time of superstition and nonsense was not yet arrived, in which bits of rotten wood, rags of rotten cloth, decayed bones (to whom originally belonging no one knows) and bramble bushes, should become objects of religious adoration.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain He saw the linen cloths lying. St. John Chrysostom…
He saw the linen cloths lying. St. John Chrysostom takes notice, that Christ’s body being buried with myrrh, the linen would stick as fast to the body as pitch, so that it would be impossible to steal, or take away the body without the linen cloths. (Witham)
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 5. Went he not in—The younger disciple was too…
5. Went he not in—The younger disciple was too fleet a runner for the elder, and he paused at the end of the race. Some suppose that he went not in from juvenile inattention, others from fear of pollution. More probably it was from reverence.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 5. stooping down, and looking in] In the Greek…
5. stooping down, and looking in] In the Greek this is expressed in a single word, which occurs again Joh_20:11 and Luk_24:12, in a literal sense, of ‘bending down to look carefully at;’ and in a figurative sense in 1Pe_1:12 and Jas_1:25 (see notes in both places). In Sir_14:23 it is used of the earnest searcher after wisdom, in Joh_21:23 of the rude prying of a fool.
saw] Better, seeth, at a glance (blepei).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (5) And he stooping down, and looking in, saw…
(5) And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying.—Better, . . . seeth the linen clothes lying. The tense still describes the scene as it actually occurred. The words “looking in” rightly complete the meaning. (Comp. Note on Joh_11:38, and for the word, Note on Luk_24:12.) It is used again in the New Testament only in Joh_20:11, Jas_1:25, and 1Pe_1:12. It meant, originally, to stoop sideways, and was used, e.g., of a harp-player; then, to stoop over, peer into, inquire into. For the “linen clothes,” comp. Joh_19:40.
Yet went he not in.—He is restrained by wonder, not unaccompanied, perhaps, by fear, at what he sees, and waits for his friend and companion.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And having stooped down. Parakuptw is the verb used…
And having stooped down. Parakuptw is the verb used in Luk_24:12 to describe Peter"s conduct and gesture. It was a necessary preliminary of the subsequent act of Peter, though Luke does not refer to it. Peter himself uses the same word. (1Pe_1:12) It means literally "bending on one side," with a desire to gaze intently on an object. (Ecc 14:23; Ecc 21:23; Jam_1:25) He seeth the linen clothes lying , (see Joh_19:40) untenanted and unused, those very cerecloths which he had helped to wind round the sacred, wounded body, with their affluence of sweet spices. Yet entered he not within. Awe, reverence, mystery, fear, nascent hope, the thought most possibly, "Not here, but risen," began to dawn faintly on his mind. There was ringing in his ears," Your sorrow shall be turned into joy." The touch of the eye-witness, and the personal part of one who is describing his own activity. Weft-stein, on ou mentoi eishlyen , adds, "no pollueretur," and quotes numerous Talmudieal authorities to show how the corpse and the grave and gravestone would pollute the living. (cf. Num_19:16) If so, then Peter, before he came to the conclusion that there was no death in the sepulcher, broke a ritual law which John respected. There seems also rabbinical authority for the fact that disciples might carry "the just" to their grave without such tear of pollution. But at this moment they were both lifted above the region of ritual altogether.
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