Mark 16:1
When the Jewish rest day was over, Mary Mag-da-lean (Magdalene), Sal-o-me (Salome), and Mary the mother of James went to buy some nice smelling oil. They wanted to put the oil on Jesus' body to bury him the right way.
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In The King James Version
In Context
2Early on Sunday morning, when the sun was just starting to come up, the women went to the cave.
Cross References
Mark 14:3At this time Jesus and his followers were staying in a town called Bethany, and they stayed with a man who was called Simon the Leper. Jesus and his followers were eating supper when a woman walked into the room with a stone bottle that had special oil in it. That oil smelled really nice and it cost a lot of money. She broke the top off the bottle and poured the oil on Jesus' head.
Mark 15:40While Jesus was on the cross, some women were watching from a long way off. These women had come with Jesus and his followers to Jerusalem. They were Mary Mag-da-lean (Magdalene), Sal-o-me (Salome), and another Mary who was the mother of young James and Joses. And there were some other women too. Before this time, these women had looked after Jesus and went everywhere with him and his followers in Galilee. And you can read this story in Matthew 27:57-61, in Luke 23:50-56 and in John 19:38-42
Mark 15:47Mary Mag-da-lean and Mary the mother of Joses, saw where Joseph put Jesus' body.
Mark 16:8The women were so amazed and so frightened they were shaking. They ran out of the cave, and did not talk to anyone. We think that this is the end of Mark's story about Jesus. There is more to this story but we are not sure who wrote it. In those days people wrote their stories on long pieces of special paper. We do not have the paper that Mark wrote, we only have copies of it. Some copies have a short extra ending that have verses 9 and 10. But other copies have a longer extra ending that goes from verse 9 to verse 20. Those women went and told Peter and the other followers what had happened. Then Jesus met his followers and sent them out everywhere. He sent them towards the east, and towards the west. His followers told people in all those places the good news about Jesus. They said, “Jesus can save you so that you can live with him forever.” That message is really special, and it is true. And you can read this story in Matthew 28:9-10; John 20:11-18.
Matthew Henry on Mark 16:1
In this chapter, we have a short account of the resurrection and ascension of the Lord Jesus: and the joys and triumphs which it furnished all believers with, will be very acceptable to those who sympathised and suffered with Christ in the foregoing chapters. Here is, I. Christ's resurrection notified by an angel to the women that came to the sepulchre to anoint him, ver. 1-8 . II. His appearance to Mary Magdalene, and the account she gave of it to the disciples, ver. 9-11 . III. His appearance to the two… Read the whole commentary →