John 20:5 BSB — MannaFest

John 20:5

He bent down and looked in at the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in.

BSB

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ASV

and stooping and looking in, he seeth the linen cloths lying; yet entered he not in.

KJV

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

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Commentary

4 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 22 (604)

The Synagogue came first to the tomb, but did not enter, because although it received the commandments of the law and heard the prophecies concerning the incarnation and passion of the Lord, it refused to believe in the one who died. For John saw the linen cloths lying there, yet did not enter, because the Synagogue both recognized the mysteries of sacred Scripture and yet delayed entering through faith by believing in the Lord's passion.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

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:

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came first to the sepulchre--These particulars have a singular air of artless truth about them. Mary, in her grief, runs to the two apostles who were soon to be so closely associated in proclaiming the Saviour's resurrection, and they, followed by Mary, hasten to see with their own eyes.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
παρακύψας	parakupsas	having stooped down	G3879 →
βλέπει	blepei	he sees	G991 →
κείμενα	keimena	lying [there]	G2749 →
τὰ	ta	the	G3588 →
ὀθόνια,	othonia	linen cloths,	G3608 →
οὐ	ou	not	G3756 →
μέντοι	mentoi	however	G3305 →
εἰσῆλθεν.¶	eisēlthen	he entered.	G1525 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 11:44
The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.
leads to
- John 5:25
  Truly, truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
- John 20:7
  The cloth that had been around Jesus’ head was rolled up, lying separate from the linen cloths.
- John 11:25–26
  Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
- Philippians 3:21
  who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.
- Luke 7:15
  And the dead man sat up and began to speak! Then Jesus gave him back to his mother.
Through
John 19:40
So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen cloths with the spices, according to the Jewish burial custom.
leads to
- John 11:44
  The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.
- John 20:5–7
  He bent down and looked in at the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in.
- Acts 5:6
  Then the young men stepped forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him.

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About John

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About John