John 20:8

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 careful arrangement of the grave-clothes proved that the body had not been taken away in haste as by a foe: and friends would scarcely have removed them at all. It is thoroughly natural that S. John speaks only of himself, saying nothing of S. Peter. He is full of the impression which the empty and orderly tomb made upon his own mind; and it is to this that John 20:1-7 lead up, just as the whole Gospel leads up to John 20:29. S. Luke (Luke 24:12—of doubtful genuineness) speaks only of S. Peter’s wonder, neither affirming nor denying his belief.