KJV King James Version
And 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.
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Mark 16:1
And 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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so they could go and anoint the body of Jesus.
WEB World English Bible
When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.
ASV American Standard Version
And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And the sabbath having past, Mary the Magdalene, and Mary of James, and Salome, bought spices, that having come, they may anoint him,
Surrounding context — Mark 16
1 And 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.
2 And very early in the morning the first [day] of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
3 And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
4 And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.
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ΚαὶG2532 · kaiandδιαγενομένουG1230 · diaginomaito passτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoσαββάτουG4521 · sabbatonSabbathΜαρίαG3137 · MariaMaryἡG3588 · hothe/this/whoΜαγδαληνὴG3094 · MagdalēnēMagdaleneκαὶG2532 · kaiandΜαρίαG3137 · MariaMaryἡG3588 · hothe/this/whoτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoἸακώβουG2385 · IakōbosJamesκαὶG2532 · kaiandΣαλώμηG4539 · SalōmēSalomeἠγόρασανG59 · agorazōto buyἀρώματαG759 · arōmaspicesἵναG2443 · hinain order that/toἐλθοῦσαιG2064 · erchomaito come/goἀλείψωσινG218 · aleiphōto anointαὐτόν.G846 · autosit/s/he
Cross-references
Luke 23:56And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.John 20:1-10The first [day] of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.Matthew 28:1-10In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first [day] of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.Mark 15:40There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;Mark 16:8And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any [man]; for they were afraid.Mark 14:3And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured [it] on his head.John 19:25Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the [wife] of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.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.Mark 14:8She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.Mark 15:47And Mary Magdalene and Mary [the mother] of Joses beheld where he was laid.John 19:39-40And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound [weight].Luke 23:54And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.Mark 15:42And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,John 19:31The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and [that] they might be taken away.Mark 16:4-5And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.
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