Mark 16:1. When the Sabbath was past. After sunset on Saturday.

Bought spices. Luke 22:56 does not necessarily imply that the preparation of spices took place on Friday, before the beginning of the Sabbath. Even if most of the women began the preparations at that time, these three were not thus engaged. The two Maries sat over against the sepulchre late on Friday (Matthew), and Salome had probably rejoined her sister Mary. (See on chap. Mark 15:47.) The resting on the Sabbath is expressly affirmed by Luke.

Anoint him. Nicodemus (John 19:39-40) had done this in a necessarily hasty manner. See on Matthew 27:59.

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