John 20:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre. ”

• John 20:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  For an account of the resurrection of Christ, see the notes at Matthew 28 . John 20:9 The scripture - See Luke 24:26 , Luke 24:46 . The sense or meaning of the various predictions that f...

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• John 20:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  John 20. The Coming of the Risen Lord. John 20:1-10 . The Empty Tomb. The gospel, as contrasted with the Appendix ( John 20:21 ), follows what is now generally known as the Jerusalem tradition, w...

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• John 20:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  ran . were running, did outrun . ran ahead, more quickly than. This affords no ground for the assumption by so many commentators, even Alford, that John was younger than Peter.

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• John 20:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre. Outrun Peter - Not because he had a greater desire to see into the truth of these things; but beca...

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• John 20:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre. So they ran both together: and the other disciple (being the younger of the two), did outr...

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• John 20:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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; fo...

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• John 20:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter. — This is simply the result of the greater activity of John, who was probably younger than his companion. The thought that love o...

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• John 20:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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,...

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• John 20:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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 bee...

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• John 20:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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, a...

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• John 20:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• John 20:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  So they ran both together ,.... At first setting out, and for a while; not content to walk, they ran, being eagerly desirous to know the truth of things: and that other disciple did outrun Peter,...

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• John 20:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre. Ver. 4. So they ran both together ] But the swifter of foot they were, the slower in faith; fo...

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• John 20:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene alone early, when it was yet dark See notes on Matthew 28:1 ; Mark 16:1-2 ; Luke 24:1 ; where the circumstance of John's mentioning only Mary Magd...

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• John 20:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 incr...

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• John 20:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Resurrection.       1 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth th...

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• John 20:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  See Poole on " 1 Thessalonians 20:3 "

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• John 20:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Mary Magdalene Finds The Tomb Has Been Opened And Calls On Peter And John ( John 20:1-10 ).

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• John 20:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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 disc...

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• John 20:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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 ris...

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• John 20:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 Jo...

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• John 20:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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....

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• John 20:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION John 20:1-43 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 gre...

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• John 20:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Peter and John at the grave:

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• John 20:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 9:24 ; 2 Corinthians 8:12 ; 2 Samuel 18:23 ; Leviticus 13:30

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• John 20:4 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Resurrection of Christ John 20:1-31 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 wra...

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