4Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.


In Context

1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.

2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!"

3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb.

4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.

5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in.

6 Then Simon Peter, who was behind him, arrived and went into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there,

John 20:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:4So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:4And they both ran together, and that other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:4And they ran both together: and the other disciple outran Peter, and came first to the tomb;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:4And the two ran together, and the other disciple ran forward faster than Peter, and came first to the tomb,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:4And they ran both together: and the other disciple outran Peter, and came first to the tomb;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:4So they ran both together: and the other disciple outran Peter, and came first to the sepulcher.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:4They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:4and the two were running together, and the other disciple did run forward more quickly than Peter, and came first to the tomb,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:4So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulcher.