John 20:5
He bent down and looked into the cave, but he didn’t go inside. He only saw the long bits of cloth that Joseph and Nicodemus put around Jesus’s body.
Plain English Version
In The King James Version
And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.
In Context
6Then Peter got there, and he went inside the cave, and he also saw the bits of cloth.
Cross References
John 11:44And Lazarus came out. There were still long bits of cloth around Lazarus’s arms and legs, and some cloth over his face. You see, people used to tie long bits of cloth around dead bodies to cover them up. Jesus said to the people there, “Take that cloth off him, so he can walk around.”
John 20:11But Mary stood outside the cave, and she was crying. Then she bent down and looked into it,
Matthew Henry on John 20:2-11
The Resurrection. 1 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. 2 Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him. 3 Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre. 4 So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun… Read the whole commentary →