20:3-7
So Peter and John set off for the tomb. They ran there to see what had happened, John running more quickly. They glanced into the tomb and saw that there was indeed no body, and the lined clothes were lying there. This latter fact indicates that the body had not been stolen, for if it had they would have taken the body wrapped in the linen. The reference to the face cloth shows that it had been folded up neatly, probably by Jesus Himself.
20:8-10
For some reason John had been reluctant to go inside, but now he did so. It then says “he saw and believed” without saying explicitly what it was that he believed. However, from the context of the whole gospel it must be that he believed in Jesus. He now understood that Jesus had been raised from the dead. However, they still did not realise the significance of this, for they did not understand that Scripture had foretold all this. Possibly John just believed that Jesus had returned to the Father. So the disciples went back to where they were staying. This may seem a rather strange reaction. However, if they thought Jesus had returned to the Father it would not be so.
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