Luke 23:56

And they went back and got ready spices and perfumes; and on the Sabbath they took their rest, in agreement with the law.

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In The King James Version

And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.

In Context

55And the women who had come with him from Galilee went after him and saw the place and how his body had been put to rest;

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Cross References

Exodus 20:8Keep in memory the Sabbath and let it be a holy day.

Exodus 35:2Six days let work be done, but the seventh day is to be a holy day to you, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on that day is to be put to death.

2 Chronicles 16:14And they put him into the resting-place which he had made for himself in the town of David, in a bed full of sweet perfumes of all sorts of spices, made by the perfumer's art, and they made a great burning for him.

Jeremiah 17:24And it will be, that if with all care you give ear to me, says the Lord, and take no weight through the doorways of this town on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work in it;

Luke 24:1But on the first day of the week, at dawn, they came to the place where his body had been put, taking the spices which they had got ready.

Matthew Henry on Luke 23:51-56

The Burial of Christ. 50 And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just: 51 (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathæa, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God. 52 This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. 53 And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid. 54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath… Read the whole commentary →

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