1And 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.
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And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
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. …
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;
The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. …
Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)Never was there such a sabbath since the sabbath was first instituted as this was, which the first words of this chapter tell us was now past ; during all this sabbath our Lord Jesus lay in the grave. It was to him a sabbath of rest , but a silent sabbath, it was to his disciples a melancholy sabbath, spent in tears and fears. Never were the sabbath services in the temple such an abomination to Go…
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