Luke 23:56

And having returned, they prepared aromatics and myrrh: and they kept the Sabbath according to the commandment.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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 along with him out of Galilee, having followed down, saw the sepulcher, and where His body was placed.

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Cross References

Luke 24:1And on the first of the Sabbath, at the depth of the dawn, they came to the sepulcher, bearing the aromatics which they had prepared,

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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