And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.
And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.
and stooping and looking in, he seeth the linen cloths lying; yet entered he not in.
And looking in, he saw the linen bands on the earth; but he did not go in,
And he stooping down, saw the linen cloths lying; yet he went not in.
Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn't enter in.
and stooping and looking in, he seeth the linen cloths lying; yet entered he not in.
Went he not in - Why? Because he was fully satisfied that the body was not there. But why did he not seize upon the linen clothes, and keep them as a most precious relic? Because he had too much religion and too much sense; and the time of superstition and nonsense was not yet arrived, in which bits of rotten wood, rags of rotten cloth, decayed bones (to whom originally belonging no one knows) and bramble bushes, should become objects of religious adoration.