Luke 23:56

Then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment.

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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

55The women who had come with Him from Galilee followed along, and they saw the tomb and how His body was placed there.

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Cross References

Luke 24:1Then on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb carrying the spices they had prepared, along with some others.

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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