Berean BlueApp preview

Matthew Poole and continuators on John 20:2

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

John20:2

2 Then she runneth , and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved , and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him .

That is, Mary Magdalene ran into the City to tell Peter; and that seemeth to be the reason why Iohn mentions onely her going to the Sepulchre: but yet Luke 24.10. makes not Mary Magdalene onely, but Ioanna and Mary the Mother of Iames, the reporters of the news to the Apostles; but possibly she was the forwardest and first reporter of it.

She came to the eleven, and told all these things to them, Luke 24.9. but possibly, her chief discourse was with Simon Peter, and Iohn the beloved Disciple:

she complains to them that her Lord was removed out of the Sepulchre, whither and by whom she knew not. But how did they know what? Mark saith, they entred into the sepulchre, Chap. 16.5. Or if that were after, as it should seem by ver. 11. of this Chapter. They guessed that the body was gone when they saw the stone rolled away, and the door open.

Marginal references: Chap. 13.23. & 21.20, 24.

Matthew Poole and continuators, Annotations upon the Holy Bible, John 20:2. Public domain.

Permanent link. Source edition.

Read John 20. Compare commentaries on this chapter.

Source and publication rights

Text Creation Partnership. Public domain; TCP unrestricted text and encoding. Source edition.

Berean Blue opens December 1, 2026. Explore this passage in the app preview.