And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.

and stooping and looking in, he seeth the linen cloths lying; yet entered he not in.

And when he stooped down, he saw the linen cloths lying; but yet he went not in.

and stooping down he sees the linen cloths lying; he did not however go in.

And he stooping down, saw the linen cloths lying; yet he went not in.

and having stooped down, seeth the linen clothes lying, yet, indeed, he entered not.

Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying there on the ground, but he did not go in.

And looking in, he saw the linen bands on the earth; but he did not go in,

And when he bowed down, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not yet enter.

Stooping down, he saw the linen wrappings lying there, but did not go in.

And seeth the linen clothes lying. The linen clothes might be regarded as the spoils, intended to lead to the belief of Christ's resurrection; for it was not probable that his body had been stripped naked, in order that it might be removed to another place. This would not have been done by a friend, nor even by an enemy.

Went he not in - Why? Because he was fully satisfied that the body was not there. But why did he not seize upon the linen clothes, and keep them as a most precious relic? Because he had too much religion and too much sense; and the time of superstition and nonsense was not yet arrived, in which bits of rotten wood, rags of rotten cloth, decayed bones (to whom originally belonging no one knows) and bramble bushes, should become objects of religious adoration.

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".