John 20:5

Stooping down to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.

In Context

4The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.

6Then Simon Peter, who had been following him, arrived and went into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there

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Cross References

John 11:44Then the man who had died came out, his feet and his hands bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”

John 20:11But Mary stood near the tomb, weeping outside. As she was weeping, she stooped down to look into the tomb

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 →

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