47And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.
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There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;
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.
And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 42-47)We are here attending the funeral of our Lord Jesus, a solemn, mournful funeral. O that we may by grace be planted in the likeness of it! Observe, I. How the body of Christ was begged . It was, as the dead bodies of malefactors are, at the disposal of the government. Those that hurried him to the cross, designed that he should make his grave with the wicked ; but God designed he should make it wit…
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