John 20:2
John 20:2 is the second verse of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament. Mary Magdalene has just discovered that the tomb of Jesus has been opened. In this verse she seeks out and tells this news to Peter and the Beloved Disciple.
1 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
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.
The English Standard Version translates the passage as:
1 Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.
2 So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.
That she seeks out Peter and the Beloved Disciple implies that Mary Magdalene knew these two well enough to know where they were staying in Jerusalem. It also shows that Mary felt the two would be concerned enough to act on her information, despite Peter's actions at the crucifixion. The repeated word "to" implies that Peter and the Beloved Disciple were staying at different places and that Mary thus delivered her message twice. John, who is often considered to be the Beloved Disciple, is said by other sources to be staying with Mary, the mother of Jesus, at this time. Schnackenberg notes that the double-barreled name Simon Peter is how the Gospel of John usually refers to Peter.
This is the third appearance of the Beloved Disciple in John, he also appears in John 13:23 and John 19:26. The introduction of the Beloved Disciple leads to two starkly different views on the veracity of the passage and those that come later. To those who believe in the traditional view that the Beloved Disciple is the author of the Gospel it adds great weight to what comes next as it is the report of an eyewitness. To most modern scholars who feel the Gospel was written at a later date the arrival of the Disciple makes the text less credible as they see him as a fictional creation.
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