KJV King James Version
And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
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Luke 23:56
And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then they returned to prepare spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath, according to the commandment.
WEB World English Bible
They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
ASV American Standard Version
And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments.And on the sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and having turned back, they made ready spices and ointments, and on the sabbath, indeed, they rested, according to the command.
Surrounding context — Luke 23
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 drew on.
55 And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ὑποστρέψασαιG5290 · hupostrephōto returnδὲG1161 · dethenἡτοίμασανG2090 · hetoimazōto make readyἀρώματαG759 · arōmaspicesκαὶG2532 · kaiandμύραG3464 · muronointmentκαὶG2532 · kaiandτὸG3588 · hothe/this/whoμὲνG3303 · menon the other handσάββατονG4521 · sabbatonSabbathἡσύχασανG2270 · hēsuchazōbe quiet/give upκατὰG2596 · kataaccording toτὴνG3588 · hothe/this/whoἐντολήν.¶G1785 · entolēcommandment
Cross-references
Luke 24:1Now upon the first [day] of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain [others] with them.Mark 16:1And 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.Deuteronomy 5:14But the seventh day [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.Exodus 20:8-10Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.Exodus 31:14Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it [is] holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth [any] work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.Exodus 35:2-3Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.Isaiah 58:13-14If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, [from] doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking [thine own] words:Jeremiah 17:24-25And 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 hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;2 Chronicles 16:14And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made 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.
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