Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Stooping and looking in (parakuyav). Originally to stoop and look, but in the LXX (Genesis 26:8; Judges 5:28; I Kings 6:4, etc.) and the papyri rather just to peep in and so Field (Ot. Norv.) urges here. See also verse John 20:11; Luke 24:12 (the verse bracketed by Westcott and Hort). For oqonia (linen cloth) see John 19:40.
Lying (keimena). Present middle participle of keimai, predicative accusative. John notices this fact at once. If the body had been removed, these clothes would have gone also. John's timid nature made him pause (yet, mentoi, however).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 20:5:
Mark 16:5
Luke 24:12
John 20:6
John 20:11
James 1:25
1 Peter 1:12
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