Luke 24:12

12 But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; he bent down and saw the grave cloths but nothing else. Then he went back home amazed at what had happened.

Luke 24:12 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 24:12

Then arose Peter
Who, though he did not believe the report made, yet listened to it, and was alarmed and aroused by it, and was willing to know the truth of it:

and ran unto the sepulchre;
not alone, but with John, being in haste to be satisfied, how things were:

and stooping down;
(See Gill on Mark 16:5). (See Gill on John 20:5).

he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves;
in which the body of Jesus was wrapped; these lay by themselves, without the body, in one place; and the napkin about his head was wrapped together, and lay in another place by itself: so that it was a plain case, the body was not stolen, nor taken away; for neither friends, nor foes, would have taken the pains, or have lost so much time, as to have stripped the body, but would rather have carried off the clothes along with it. The Alexandrian copy leaves out the word (mona) , alone, or by themselves:

and departed;
from the sepulchre to Jerusalem, to John's house there:

wondering in himself at that which was come to pass;
that the body should not be there, and yet the clothes should remain; he could not tell what to make of it. As for a resurrection, he had no notion of that, and yet could not account for the removal of the body, either by friends or foes, and the clothes left behind.

Luke 24:12 In-Context

10 The women were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James; they and the other women with them told these things to the apostles.

11 But the apostles thought that what the women said was nonsense, and they did not believe them.

12 But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; he bent down and saw the grave cloths but nothing else. Then he went back home amazed at what had happened.

13 On that same day two of Jesus' followers were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem,

14 and they were talking to each other about all the things that had happened.

Footnotes

• [a]. [Some manuscripts do not have verse 12.]