Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
seeth the linen clothes lie—lying.
And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes—not loosely, as if hastily thrown down, and indicative of a hurried and disorderly removal.
but wrapped—folded.
together in a place by itself—showing with what grand tranquillity "the Living One" had walked forth from "the dead" (Luke 24:5). "Doubtless the two attendant angels (John 20:12) did this service for the Rising One, the one disposing of the linen clothes, the other of the napkin" [BENGEL].
Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came first to the sepulchre—These particulars have a singular air of artless truth about them. Mary, in her grief, runs to the two apostles who were soon to be so closely associated in proclaiming the Saviour's resurrection, and they, followed by Mary, hasten to see with their own eyes. The younger disciple outruns the older; love haply supplying swifter wings. He stoops, he gazes in, but enters not the open sepulchre, held back probably by a reverential fear. The bolder Peter, coming up, goes in at once, and is rewarded with bright evidence of what had happened.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 20:7:
Luke 24:12
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