John 20:5 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁵ He stooped down and looked inside [the cave-like tomb] and saw the linen cloths lying there [i.e., these were wrappings used to hold embalming spices against the body], but he did not go in.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ And stooping down, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not enter.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ and stooping and looking in, he seeth the linen cloths lying; yet entered he not in.

Common English Bible

⁵ Bending down to take a look, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he didn’t go in.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And when he bowed down, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not yet enter.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ And when he stooped down, he saw the linen cloths lying; but yet he went not in.

John 20:5 Cross References

John 11:44

[Immediately] the man who had died came out [of the cave] with his hands and feet [still] wrapped in bandages, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to his Jewish friends, “Unwrap him and let him go.”

John 19:40

So, they took Jesus’ body and wrapped it in linen cloths, with spices, according to customary Jewish burial practices.

John 20:11

but Mary [from Magdala] was standing outside of the cave-like tomb crying. While she was [still] crying she stooped down to look in the tomb,

John 20:4

The two of them ran together, but the other disciple outran Peter and arrived at the grave site first.

John 20:6

Then Simon Peter, who had been following him, also arrived and went [straight] into the cave-like tomb and saw the linen cloths lying there.