Giovanni 20:5

5 E chinatosi vide le lenzuola che giacevano nel monumento; ma non vi entrò.

Giovanni 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".

Giovanni 20:5 In-Context

3 Pietro adunque, e l’altro discepolo uscirono fuori, e vennero al monumento.

4 Or correvano amendue insieme; ma quell’altro discepolo corse innanzi più prestamente che Pietro, e venne il primo al monumento.

5 E chinatosi vide le lenzuola che giacevano nel monumento; ma non vi entrò.

6 E Simon Pietro, che lo seguitava, venne, ed entrò nel monumento, e vide le lenzuola che giacevano,

7 e lo sciugatoio ch’era sopra il capo di Gesù, il qual non giaceva con le lenzuola, ma era involto da parte in un luogo.