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Mark 16:1

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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?

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BSB
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.
KJV
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.
WEB
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
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.
DARBY
And the sabbath being [now] past, Mary of Magdala, and Mary the [mother] of James, and Salome, bought aromatic spices that they might come and embalm him.
BLB
And [on] the Sabbath having passed, Mary Magdalene and Mary the [mother] of James and Salome bought spices so that, having come, they might anoint Him.
ÅB
Og da sabbaten var til ende, kjøpte Maria Magdalena og Maria, Jakobs mor, og Salome velluktende urter for å gå og salve ham.
OTB
Da sabbaten var over, kjøpte Maria Magdalena, Maria, Jakobs mor, og Salome velluktende oljer for å gå og salve ham.
B1930
Og da sabbaten var til ende, kjøpte Maria Magdalena og Maria, Jakobs mor, og Salome velluktende urter for å gå og salve ham.

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Cross references

  • Luke 23:56–24:12

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

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  • Matthew 28:1–10

    In 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.

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  • John 20:1–10

    The 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.

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  • Mark 15:40

    There 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;

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  • John 19:25

    Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.

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  • Mark 14:3

    And 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.

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  • 2 Chronicles 16:14

    And 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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  • Mark 16:8

    And 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.

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