Mark 16:1

When the Sabbath ends, the women buy spices to anoint Jesus' body. They come expecting to honor a corpse, not to meet a risen Lord.

Cross-references · 15

• Luke 23:56They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
• Matt 28:1–10Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.
• John 20:1–10Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.
• Mark 15:40There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;
• 2 Chr 16:14They buried him in his own tomb, which he had dug out for himself in David’s city, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him.
• Mark 14:8She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.
• John 19:25But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
• Mark 15:47Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.
• Mark 16:8They went out, and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them. They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid.
• Mark 14:3While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard — very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.
• John 19:31Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
• John 19:39–40Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.
• Mark 15:42When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
• Luke 23:54It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near.
• Mark 16:4–5for it was very big. Looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back.

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