Juan 20:5

5 Y bajándose á mirar, vió los lienzos echados; mas no entró.

Juan 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".

Juan 20:5 In-Context

3 Y salió Pedro, y el otro discípulo, y vinieron al sepulcro.

4 Y corrían los dos juntos; mas el otro discípulo corrió más presto que Pedro, y llegó primero al sepulcro.

5 Y bajándose á mirar, vió los lienzos echados; mas no entró.

6 Llegó luego Simón Pedro siguiéndole, y entró en el sepulcro, y vió los lienzos echados,

7 Y el sudario, que había estado sobre su cabeza, no puesto con los lienzos, sino envuelto en un lugar aparte.