Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Mark 16:1

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1. And when the sabbath was past —that is, at sunset of our Saturday. Mary Magdalene —(See on :- ). and Mary the mother of James —James the Less (see :- ). and Salome —the mother of Zebedee's sons (compare Mark 15:40 ; Matthew 27:56 ). had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him —The word is simply "bought." But our translators are perhaps right in rendering it here "had bought," since it would appear, from Matthew 27:56- : , that they had purchased them immediately after the Crucifixion, on the Friday evening, during the short interval that remained to them before sunset, when the sabbath rest began; and that they had only deferred using them to anoint the body till the sabbath rest should be over. On this "anointing," see on Matthew 27:56- : . return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-2" class="com-number"

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