Mark 16:2

So very early on Sunday, just after the sun rose, they took the fragrant ointment and started toward the tomb.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.

In Context

1On Saturday evening when ◄the Sabbath/the Jewish day of rest► had ended, Mary from Magdala, Mary the mother of the younger James, and Salome bought fragrant ointment. The Jews had a custom of anointing bodies before they buried them, and the women wanted to follow this custom.

3While they were going there, they were saying to each other, “Who will roll away for us the stone that blocks the entrance of the tomb?”

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Cross References

Matthew 28:1After ◄the Sabbath/the Jewish day of rest► ended, on Sunday morning at dawn, Mary from Magdala and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

John 20:1Early on Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary, the woman from Magdala village, went to the burial cave with some other women. They saw that the stone had been removed {that someone had removed the stone} from the entrance to the cave.

Matthew Henry on Mark 16:2-9

The Women at the Sepulchre; The Apostles Reproved. 1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. 2 And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. 3 And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? 4 And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great. 5 And entering… Read the whole commentary →

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