The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid.
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The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid.
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The wemen that folowed after which came with him from Galile behelde the sepulcre and how his body was layed.
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And the women also that followed after, which came with him from Galile, behelde the sepulchre, and how his body was layd.
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Passages linked to Luke 23:55 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Luke 23:49 All his acquaintances and the women who followed with him from Galilee stood at a distance, watching these things.
- Matthew 27:61 Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb.
- Mark 15:47 Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.
- Luke 8:2 and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Christ, being set upon by the devil and all…
Christ, being set upon by the devil and all his instruments, and being even, in death’s mouth, setteth weak women in his foreward, minding straightways to triumph over those terrible enemies without any great endeavor.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 55 And the women also, which came with him…
55 And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
Ver. 55. See Mat 27:61.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain See Poole on "Mat 27:61". It is Beza’s observation…
See Poole on "Mat 27:61". It is Beza’s observation upon these verses, that Christ, being opposed by the devil and all his instruments, being now dead, leaveth two or three poor women, as it were, in the front of the battle, intending within a very short time, without much ado, to triumph over all these terrible adversaries.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 55. The women also, which came] These were…
Verse 55. The women also, which came] These were Mary of Magdala, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, Lu 24:10. To these three, Mark, in Mr 16:1, adds, Salome; but some think that this was only a surname of one of these Marys.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 55. the women also] The two other Synoptists mention…
55. the women also] The two other Synoptists mention specially Mary of Magdala and Mary the mother of James and Joses.
followed after] Literally, “following closely.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (55) And the women also.—Here again we come upon…
(55) And the women also.—Here again we come upon traces of St. Luke’s informants. The other Gospels speak of one or two by name. He knows that others belonging to the company of women who came with Jesus from Galilee (note the recurrence of the same description as in Luk_23:49) had taken part in the work. They had stood within view of the cross. They saw the body taken down. They followed (it was not far) to the garden owned by Nicodemus.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 55. 56. And the women also, which came…
Vers. 55. 56. And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments. The real process of embalming, the women who were of the company of Jesus the Maries, Salome, and others proposed to undertake as soon as the sabbath was passed, that is, on the first day of the coming week the Sunday. How little even his nearest and dearest friends dreamed of a resurrection of the body! It seems probable that they expected, at least some of them, a glorious reappearance of Jesus, but when, but how, they had evidently formed no definite conception. None, however, seemed to have thought of the bodily resurrection which took place on the first day of the week- on that Sunday morning. St. Matthew (Mat_27:62-66) relates how, after the entombment, the chief priests and Pharisees went to Pilate and asked that the sepulchre might, "until the third day," be made sure; and how the Roman governor bade them take such precautions as seemed good to them. These his bitter opponents were more clear-sighted than his friends. They had some dim fears of something which might still follow, while his disciples, in their hopeless sorrow, thought nil was over. And rested the sabbath day according to the commandment. "It was the last sabbath of the old covenant. It was scrupulously respected" (Godet).
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 23:55-56 The women took special note of the tomb’s…
23:55-56 The women took special note of the tomb’s location because they would return with spices and ointments to anoint his body. The spices were to mask the stench of a rotting corpse. A body would be placed on a stone bench in the side of the tomb until the flesh decomposed. The bones would then be collected and placed in a small ossuary, or bone box, and placed on a shelf in the tomb. In this way, a tomb could be used for many family members over an extended period of time.
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