Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
John 20:8
John seeing Peter adventure in, adventures also, and seeth the same things, and believeth that Christ was risen from the dead; or (as some think) that, as the women had said, somebody had taken him away.
John seeing Peter adventure in, adventures also, and seeth the same things, and believeth that Christ was risen from the dead; or (as some think) that, as the women had said, somebody had taken him away.
Verse John 20:8. _THAT OTHER DISCIPLE_] John. _SAW_] That the body was not there. _AND BELIEVED._] That it had been taken away, as Mary had said; but he did not believe that he was risen from the de...
For an account of the resurrection of Christ, see the notes at Matthew 28. John 20:9 THE SCRIPTURE - See Luke 24:26,...
CHAPTER 20 _ 1. The Empty Sepulchre. (John 20:1 .)_ 2. The Risen One and Mary of Magdala. (John 20:11 .) 3. The Gathered Company and He in the midst. (John 20:19 .) 4. The Second Time. ...
JOHN 20. THE COMING OF THE RISEN LORD. John 20:1. The Empty Tomb. The gospel, as contrasted with the Appendix (John 20:21), follows what is now generally known as the Jerusalem tradition, which makes...
THEN WENT IN THAT OTHER DISCIPLE... AND HE SAW AND BELIEVED. When John entered in, saw the careful attention paid to the grave clothes, and knew that rude robbers could not have taken the body, it fla...
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Mary from Magdala came to the tomb; and she saw the stone taken away from the tomb. So she ran and came to Simon Peter...
BEWILDERED LOVE (John 20:1-10)...
ALSO, &c.. that other disciple also. which who. SAW. Greek. _eidon._ App-133. BELIEVED (App-150.): i, e. believed that He was risen. All that He had said about rising again the third day had fallen...
_Then … that other_ Better, THEREFORE _went in also_ THE _other_. He is encouraged by his older companion. Note how all the details tell of the eye-witness: he remembers even that the napkin was folde...
ΚΑῚ ἘΠΊΣΤΕΥΣΕΝ. See on John 1:7. More difficulty has perhaps been made about this than is necessary. ‘Believed what?’ is asked. That Jesus was risen. The whole context implies it; and comp. John 20:25...
THE FIRST EVIDENCE OF THE RESURRECTION...
Ver 1. The first day of the week comes Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, to the sepulcher, and sees the stone taken away from the sepulcher. 2. Then she runs, and comes to Simon Peter, and t...
_THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS AND THE EMPTY TOMB -- JOHN 20:1-10:_ Mark records, "Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast se...
ΕΊΣΉΛΘΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΕΊΣΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ, _см._ John 20:5. ΈΛΘΏΝ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ, _см._ John 20:3; здесь: пришел. _Aor._ указывает на предшествующее действие ("который прибыл первы...
DISCOURSE: 1730 THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST John 20:8. _Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed. For as yet they knew not the Scripture, that...
AND BELIEVED.— The plain interpretation of this passage seems to be, that John entering into the sepulchre, saw every thing as above related, and consequently _believed,_ not that Christ was risen, bu...
THE EMPTY TOMB _Text: John 20:1-10_ 1 Now on the first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, while it was yet dark, unto the tomb, and seeth the stone taken away from the tomb. 2 She runnet...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 20:1-10 Below is an Analysis of the first section of John 20:— The resurrection of Christ was more than hinted at in the first Divine promise and prophecy (Gene...
Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed. THEN WENT IN ALSO THAT (OR 'THE') OTHER DISCIPLE WHICH CAME FIRST TO THE SEPULCHRE. The repetiti...
6 There is a blessed contrast between the resurrection of Lazarus and the vivification of our Lord. Lazarus saw corruption. Christ saw none. Lazarus was raised bound foot and hand with grave clothes a...
THE RESURRECTION 1-10. The Resurrection. Visits of Mary Magdalene, and of Peter and John to the tomb of Jesus. (For the Resurrection appearances see on the synoptics, especially on St. Matthew; for th...
AND HE SAW AND BELIEVED] Why did John believe? Probably because the body of Jesus had miraculously passed through the thick folds of the graveclothes, leaving them unmoved and untouched, just as, on t...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 20 THE GRAVE IS EMPTY! 20:1-10 V1 On Sunday morning, Mary (who was from Magdala) went to the grave. It was very early a...
XXII. _ THE RESURRECTION._ "Now on the first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, while it was yet dark, unto the tomb, and seeth the stone taken away from the tomb. She runneth therefore, and...
_The empty tomb_....
On Peter reporting what he saw τότε οὖν … ἐπίστευσεν. “then entered accordingly the other disciple also, who had first arrived at the tomb, and he saw and believed”. Standing and gazing at the folded...
THE WITNESS OF THE EMPTY TOMB John 20:1-10 In considering John's account of the Resurrection, we should remember that it is largely supplementary to the other narratives. This Gospel having been writ...
This is the story of a dark morning and a lost Master. The strange excitement of it all is evidenced by the fact that the three disciples named are all seen running. Mary ran to tell the disciples, an...
_He saw and believed. He did not yet believe that Jesus was risen from the dead, because he was still ignorant that he was to rise from the dead. For although the apostles had so often heard their div...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 1-18. 1. The other women who are represented in the Synoptics as going with Mary Magdalene to the sepulchre are not mentioned here, and the appearance to...
1. JOHN 20:1-10. The entire first part of this section tends towards the words of John 20:8: “ _And he saw and believed._ ” After this, the appearance of Jesus to Mary Magdalene makes the latter the...
FIFTH PART: 20:1-29. THE RESURRECTION. The fourth part of the Gospel has shown us the Jewish people carrying _unbelief_ with reference to Jesus even to complete apostasy, and consummating this spirit...
“ _Then entered in also the other disciple who had first come to the sepulchre; and he saw and believed._ 9. _For they did not yet understand the Scripture which says that he should rise from the dead...
The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. (2) Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and...
In John 20:1-31 is the resurrection, and this in a remarkable light. No such outward circumstance is here as in Matthew, no soldiers trembling, no walk with disciples, but as ever the person of God's...
_EASTER THOUGHTS_ ‘Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.’ John 20:8 We have sung in faith and with joy our Easter hymn, ‘Jesus Christ i...
8._And he saw and believed. _It is a poor exposition which some give of these words, that John _believed _what he had heard Mary say, namely, that Christ’s body had been carried away; for there is no...
In chapter 20, we have, in a summary of several of the leading facts among those which took place after the resurrection of Jesus, a picture of all the consequences of that great event, in immediate c...
THEN WENT IN ALSO THE OTHER DISCIPLE,.... John, being animated by the example of Peter, went down into the sepulchre likewise; whither Peter also might beckon, or call him, to be witness with him of t...
Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed. Ver. 8. _And he saw and believed_] _i.e._ He believed his own eyes, that the Lord's body was not in...
_The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene alone early, when it was yet dark_ See notes on Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:1; Luke 24:1; where the circumstance of John's mentioning only Mary Magdalene as...
HE SAW, AND BELIEVED; that Jesus was risen from the dead. The fact that the grave-clothes had all been left in the tomb, arranged in orderly manner, convinced him that the body of Jesus had not been t...
Peter and John at the grave:...
THEN WENT IN ALSO THAT OTHER DISCIPLE, WHICH CAME FIRST TO THE SEPULCHER; AND HE SAW AND BELIEVED....
THE GRAVE: OPEN AND EMPTY! (vs.1-10) Though others besides Mary of Magdala went together to the grave early on the first day of the week, yet in John she is singled out, a woman devoted, but incredu...
1-10 If Christ gave his life a ransom, and had not taken it again, it would not have appeared that his giving it was accepted as satisfaction. It was a great trial to Mary, that the body was gone. We...
John 20:8 Then G5119 G3767 other G243 disciple G3101 who G3588 came G2064 (G5631) to G1519 tomb...
‘Simon Peter also therefore comes, following him, and went into the tomb, and he sees the linen cloths lying there, and the napkin that was on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up...
MARY MAGDALENE FINDS THE TOMB HAS BEEN OPENED AND CALLS ON PETER AND JOHN (JOHN 20:1)....
The victory of Jesus over His enemies, in the midst of apparent defeat, is still the subject before us. The preceding chapter had closed with the statement that He was laid in the tomb: when the narra...
John 20:8. THEN WENT IN THEREFORE THE OTHER DISCIPLE ALSO, WHICH CAME FIRST TO THE SEPULCHRE, AND HE SAW AND BELIEVED. It is certainly not a belief of the statement of Mary that is expressed in this l...
THEN THEREFORE (τοτε ουν). After Peter in time and influenced by the boldness of Peter.AND HE SAW AND BELIEVED (κα ειδεν κα επιστευσεν). Both aorist active indicative (second and first). Peter saw...
John 20:1. _The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulcher._ Her love for her Lord made her rise e...
CONTENTS: Resurrection of Christ. CHARACTERS: Mary Magdalene, Peter, John, two angels, Jesus, disciples, Thomas. CONCLUSION: He who gave His life as a ransom resumed His life again by the mighty pow...
John 20:2. _They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre._ After Mr. WEST had examined with all possible care every circumstance recorded of the resurrection, he in substance remarks, that John...
_Then went in also that other disciple_ I. ZEALOUS PURSUIT. II. ENLARGED KNOWLEGE III. INCREASED FAITH. (_S. S. Times_.) UNCONSCIOUS INFLUENCE: In this slight turn of history we see that men are...
_The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene … unto the sepulchre_ THE SEPULCHRE There were more common and more noble sepulchres. The common were in public burying places without the city. And...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 20:1 Chapter John 20:1 covers the aftermath of Jesus’ crucifixion and burial: the empty tomb, the risen Jesus’ encounter with Mary Magdalene, and Jesus’ appearances to his disciples...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 20:8 THE OTHER DISCIPLE... ALSO WENT IN. The presence of two male witnesses made evidence acceptable under Jewish law (see Deuteronomy 17:6;...
Jesus rises from the dead Matthew 28:1-10; Mark 16:1-11; Luke 24:1-12; John 20:1-18;...
28-31 CHAPTER 20 VER. 1. _On the first day of the week._ Literally, of the Sabbath, the week being called the Sabbath, after its principal day, or the day of the Pasch. (see on Mat 28:1) _Mary Magda...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ St. John’s narrative of the Resurrection is not general. He describes how _faith_ in the risen Lord was established in his own case and in the case of the other discip...
EXPOSITION JOHN 20:1 2. The complete glorification of Jesus in his resurrection. The record pauses for the awful day of that great sabbath, and resumes the marvelous recital when the greatest event i...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the gospel according to John, chapter 20. The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and she saw the stone was...
John 1:50; John 20:25; John 20:29...
Believed. This word is explained by what follows. He believed (at length) that Jesus was risen; for up to this time [ο υ δ ε π ω] he, with his fellow - disciple (plural, hdeisan) knew not, etc. The si...
THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST John 20:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The linen clothes. Before we discuss the resurrection with you, we want you to consider with us the manner in which Christ was wrapped arou...
He saw — That the body was not there, and believed — That they had taken it away as Mary said....