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John 20:4
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2 Then she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the aother disciple, bwhom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.”  
3 aPeter therefore went out, and the other disciple, and were going to the tomb.  
4 So they both ran together, and the other disciple outran Peter and came to the tomb first.
5 And he, stooping down and looking in, saw athe linen cloths lying there; yet he did not go in.  
6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; and he saw the linen cloths lying there,
7 and athe handkerchief that had been around His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded together in a place by itself.  
8 Then the aother disciple, who came to the tomb first, went in also; and he saw and believed.  
9 For as yet they did not1 know the aScripture, that He must rise again from the dead.  
10 Then the disciples went away again to their own homes.

Mary Magdalene Sees the Risen Lord

11 aBut Mary stood outside by the tomb weeping, and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the tomb.  
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John 20:4

They both (oi duo). "The two" (Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus loved).

Ran together (etrexon omou). Imperfect active of trexw. It was a race in eagerness to reach the tomb of Jesus.

Outran Peter (proedramen taxeion tou Petrou). Second aorist active indicative of protrexw, old verb, in N.T. only here and Luke 19:4, to run on before (ahead). "He ran ahead more swiftly (see John 13:27) than Peter" (ablative case after comparative adverb taxeion, Koin‚ for older qasson).

First (prwtov). Predicative nominative (not adverb proton) and superlative used where only two involved. John won the race.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 20:4:

Mark 16:5
John 1:15
John 4:36
John 8:7
John 13:27
Acts 1:1
Hebrews 13:19
1 John 4:19

 

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