56And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. …
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 50-56)We have here an account of Christ’s burial; for he must be brought not only to death, but to the dust of death (Ps. 22:15), according to the sentence (Gen. 3:19), To the dust thou shalt return . Observe, I. Who buried him. His acquaintance stood afar off ; they had neither money to bear the charge nor courage to bear the odium of burying him decently; but God raised up one that had both, a man nam…
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