Luke 23:56

And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments. And on the sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

Revised Version 1895

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, which had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and beheld the tomb, and how his body was laid.

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Cross References

Exodus 20:8Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Exodus 35:2Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of solemn rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work therein shall be put to death.

2 Chronicles 16:14And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.

Jeremiah 17:24And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but to hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;

Luke 24:1But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came unto the tomb, bringing the spices 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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