John 20:5

5 And he stouped doune and sawe the lynnen clothes lyinge yet wet he not in.

John 20:5 Meaning and Commentary

John 20:5

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 Mark 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:

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".

John 20:5 In-Context

3 Peter went forth and that other disciple and came vnto the sepulcre.

4 They ranne bothe to gether and that other disciple dyd out runne Peter and came fyrst to the sepulcre.

5 And he stouped doune and sawe the lynnen clothes lyinge yet wet he not in.

6 Then came Simon Peter folowynge him and went into ye sepulcre and sawe the lynnen clothes lye

7 and the napkyn that was aboute his heed not lyinge with the lynnen clothe but wrapped togeder in a place by it selfe.