{1.14} John xx. 1, et seq.; and Mark xvi. 9, et seq. It must be observed that the Gospel of Mark has, in our printed versions of the New Testament, two conclusions: Mark xvi. 1-8; Mark xvi. 9-20, to say nothing of two other conclusions, one of which has been handed down to us in the manuscript L. of Paris, and the margin of the Philoxenian version (_Nov. Test._, edit. Griesbach, Schultz, 1, page 291 note); the other by St. Jerome, _Adv. Pelag._ l. ii. (vol. iv., 2d part, col. 250, edit. Martianay.) The conclusion in the sixteenth chapter, 9th and following verses, are wanting in the _Codex Sinaïticus_ and in the most important Greek manuscripts. But, in any case, it is of great antiquity, and its harmony with the fourth Gospel is a striking coincidence. {1.15} Matt. xxvii. 60; Mark xv. 46; Luke xxiii. 53. {1.16} John xix. 41, 42. {1.17} See "_Life of Jesus_," p. 38. {1.18} The Gospel of the Hebrews contained, perhaps, some analogous circumstance (vide St. Jerome, _de Viris Illustribus_, 2). {1.19} M. de Vogue, _The Churches of the Holy Land_, pp. 125, 126. The verb αποκυλίω (Matt. xxviii. 2; Mark xvi. 3, 4; Luke xxvi. 2) clearly proves that such was the situation of the tomb of Jesus. {1.20} In all this, the recital of the fourth Gospel is vastly superior. It is our principal guide. In Luke xxiv. 12, Peter alone goes to the tomb. In the conclusion of Mark given in manuscript L, and in the margin of the Philoxenian version (Griesbach, _loc. citat._) occur τοῖς περὶ τὸν Πέτρον St. Paul (I. Cor. xv. 5) similarly introduces Peter only in this first vision. Further, Luke (xxiv. 24) supposes that many disciples went to the tomb, which observation probably applies to successive visits. It is possible that John has here yielded to the after-thought which betrays him more than once in his Gospel, of showing that he had, in the history of Jesus, a first-rate rôle, equal even to that of Peter. Perhaps, also, the repeated declarations of John, that he was an eye-witness of the fundamental facts of the Christian faith (Gospel i. 14; xxi. 24; I. John i. 1-3; iv. 14), should be applied to this visit. {1.21} John xx. 1, 10; compare Luke xxiv. 12, 34; I. Cor. xv. 5, and the conclusion of Mark in the manuscript L. {1.22} Matt. xxviii. 9; in observing that Matt. xxviii. 9, 10, replies to John xx. 16. 17. {1.23} John xx. 11-17, in harmony with Mark xvi. 9, 10; compare the parallel, but far less satisfactory account of Matt. xxviii. 1-10; Luke xxiv. 1, 10. {1.24} John xx. 18. {1.25} Compare Mark xvi. 9; Luke viii. 2. {1.26} Luke xxiv. 11. {1.27} Ibid. xxiv. 24.