Passion Week · About AD 31
The Women Buy Sweet Spices
Friday, the 16th
When
“when the sabbath was past” Mark 16:1
Where It Is Told
Mark 16:1
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.
Luke 23:56
56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
Bought after the high day and prepared before the weekly sabbath: “they returned, and prepared spices and ointments” (Luke 23:56).
Difficult Passages
How was Christ three days and three nights in the heart of the earth?
He was crucified on Wednesday, the preparation of the passover, and rose at the end of the weekly sabbath: three full days and three full nights.
