Luke 23:56 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Luke 23:56 Cross References

2 Chronicles 16:14

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

Exodus 31:14

You shall keep the sabbath, because it is holy for you; every one who profanes it shall be put to death; whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Mark 16:1

And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him.

Luke 24:1

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

Deuteronomy 5:14

but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your manservant, or your maidservant, or your ox, or your ass, or any of your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as well as you.