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John 20:5 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

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

John 20:5

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3 Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre.

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

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

6 Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie,

7 And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.

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"But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre,"

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Luke 24:12

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"Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass."

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Mark 15:46

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"And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre."

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"And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked."

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From This Chapter

John 20:1

"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."

John 20:2

"Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him."

John 20:3

"Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre."

John 20:4

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

John 20:6

"Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie,"

John 20:7

"And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself."

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