Luke 24:12

But Peter arose, and ran unto the tomb; and stooping and looking in, he seeth the linen cloths by themselves; and he departed to his home, wondering at that which was come to pass.

Here Luke abbreviated the whole incident so fully presented in John 20:1-9, omitting not only John's participation in it, but also, the fact of Peter's having actually entered the tomb. This abbreviation cannot be viewed as a contradiction of the longer account, being rather an abridgment of it, focusing upon the extremely important key fact of the episode, namely, the position of the linen cloths, of which Harrison, said, "They kept the same position they had when the body was in them."[5] See more on this in my Commentary on John, under John 19:40,41; 20:5; and in my Commentary on Matthew, Matthew 27:52.

The linen cloths ... In Luke 23:53, Luke mentioned Joseph's wrapping Jesus' body in a "linen cloth" (singular)"; but here it is quite evident that before the wrapping was done, the cloth was reduced to strips. B. F. Westcott said:

The exact word for CLOTHS is the diminutive form which is used in Greek medical writings for bandages. This distinguished these swathes in which the body was bound from the linen cloth.[6]

JESUS' APPEARANCE TO THE DISCIPLES ON EMMAUS ROAD

Instead of giving a list of appearances, Luke here described one particular appearance fully; because, as Geldenhuys said:

In it there is so strikingly depicted what was going on in the hearts of the Saviour's followers on that day, and how Jesus, by word and act, as he appeared to them, removed all their pangs of despair.[7]

Summers described this as "the most beautiful of all the post resurrection accounts";[8] and Barclay denominated it "another of the immortal short stories of the world."[9]

[5] Everett F. Harrison, Wycliffe Bible Commentary (Chicago: Moody Press, 1971), p. 273.

[6] B. F. Westcott, Commentary on the Gospel of John (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1971), p. 281.

[7] Norval Geldenhuys, Commentary on the Gospel of Luke (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1951), p. 632.

[8] Ray Summers, Commentary on Luke (Waco, Texas: Word Books, Publisher, 1974), p. 322.

[9] William Barclay, op. cit., p. 308.