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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Mark 16:1 - 16:1
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Mar 16:1-20. Angelic announcement to the women on the first day of the week, that Christ is risen - His appearances after His resurrection - His ascension - Triumphant proclamation of His Gospel. ( = Mat 28:1-10, Mat 28:16-20; Luk 24:1-51; Joh 20:1, Joh 20:2, Joh 20:11-29).
The Resurrection announced to the women (Mar 16:1-8).
And when the sabbath was past - that is, at sunset of our Saturday.
Mary Magdalene - (See on Luk 8:2).
and Mary the mother of James - James the Less (see Mar 15:40).
and Salome - the mother of Zebedee’s sons (compare Mar 15:40 with Mat 27:56).
had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him - The word is simply “bought.” But our translators are perhaps right in rendering it here “had bought,” since it would appear, from Luk 23:56, that they had purchased them immediately after the Crucifixion, on the Friday evening, during the short interval that remained to them before sunset, when the sabbath rest began; and that they had only deferred using them to anoint the body till the sabbath rest should be over. On this “anointing,” see on Joh 19:40.