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Joh_20:3-4. Note the change of the aorists and pictorial imperfects; comp. Joh_4:30.
Luk_24:12 mentions only Peter; but comp. also Luk_24:23. See in loc. The more rapid running of John, and then, again, the greater boldness of Peter, Joh_20:5-6, are individual traits so characteristically original, that here (comp. on Joh_18:15) it is highly inappropriate to charge the writer with an intention to place John before Peter (Strauss), or with the endeavour not to allow John, as opposed to Peter, to stand at least in the background (Baur).[260]
τάχιον τοῦ Π .] Love impelled both, and gave wings to their steps; but the youthful John ran more quickly forwards ( προέδρ ., comp. Xen. Anab. iv. 7. 10) than Peter, whose consciousness of guilt (Lampe, Luthardt), especially after his bitter repentance, hardly restrained his running, as little as it withheld him, Joh_20:6, from stepping before John. Euth. Zigabenus is simply correct: ὡς ἀκμαιότερος τὸν πόνον τοῦ σώματος .
[260] This also in answer to Späth in Hilgenfeld, ZeitsChr. 1868, p. 189 f.