Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary

John 20:2

2. The manifestations were granted to disciples only, but to disciples wholly unexpectant of a Resurrection. The theory that they were visions resulting from enthusiastic expectations, is against all the evidence.

2. The first sign was the removal of the stone.

2. Concluding that the body must be gone, she runneth therefore to S. Peter. He is still chief of the Apostles, and as such is consulted first, in spite of his fall. The repetition of πρός implies that he was not living with S. John, though (John 20:3) near him. We are in doubt whether δν ἐφίλει applies to him as well as to ‘the other disciple.’ The special phrase for S. John is ὄν ἠγάπα (John 13:22).

ἦραν. She makes no attempt to determine whether friends or foes have done it (comp. Luke 12:20): οἴδαμεν agrees with the Synoptists’ account, that other women came also. She left them to go to the Apostles.

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