Luke 23:56

Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments. 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 Jesus from Galilee followed along behind and saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it.

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Cross References

Luke 24:1On the first day of the week, at early dawn, the women came to the tomb, bringing the spices they had prepared, and some other women were with them.

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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