Luke 23:56 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵⁶ Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵⁶ And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵⁶ Then they went back and made ready spices and ointments (perfumes). On the Sabbath day they rested in accordance with the commandment. [Exod. 12:16; 20:10.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵⁶ And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments. And on the sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

Common English Bible

⁵⁶ then they went away and prepared fragrant spices and perfumed oils. They rested on the Sabbath, in keeping with the commandment.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵⁶ And upon returning, they prepared aromatic spices and ointments. But on the Sabbath, indeed, they rested, according to the commandment.

Luke 23:56 Cross References

Luke 24:1

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared.

Mark 16:1

When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him.

Deuteronomy 5:14

But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, or your son or your daughter, or your male or female slave, or your ox or your donkey, or any of your livestock, or the resident alien in your towns, so that your male and female slave may rest as well as you.

Exodus 31:14

You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you; everyone who profanes it shall be put to death; whoever does any work on it shall be cut off from among the people.

2 Chronicles 16:14

They buried him in the tomb that he had cut out for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier that had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer’s art, and they made a very great fire in his honor.