John Chapter 20 verse 5 Holy Bible
and stooping and looking in, he seeth the linen cloths lying; yet entered he not in.
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And looking in, he saw the linen bands on the earth; but he did not go in,
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and stooping down he sees the linen cloths lying; he did not however go in.
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And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not 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 having stooped down, seeth the linen clothes lying, yet, indeed, he entered not.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - And having stooped down. Παρακύπτω is the verb used in Luke 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 (1 Peter 1:12). It means literally "bending on one side," with a desire to gaze intently on an object (Ecclus. 14:23 Ecclus. 21:23; James 1:25). He seeth the linen clothes lying (see John 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 οὐ μέντοι εἰσῆλθεν, adds, "no pollueretur," and quotes numerous Talmudieal authorities to show how the corpse and the grave and gravestone would pollute the living (cf. Numbers 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.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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 John 11:38, and for the word, Note on Luke 24:12.) It is used again in the New Testament only in John 20:11, James 1:25, and 1Peter 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. John 19:40. . . .
