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Mark 16:1

Contemporary English Version 1995

After the Sabbath, Mary Magdalene, Salome, and Mary the mother of James bought some spices to put on Jesus' body.

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Then they went to prepare some sweet-smelling spices for his burial. But on the Sabbath they rested, as the Law of Moses commands.

Some women were looking on from a distance. They and many others had come with Jesus to Jerusalem. But even before this they had been his followers and had helped him while he was in Galilee. Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of the younger James and of Joseph were two of these women. Salome was also one of them.

The next day would be both a Sabbath and the Passover. It was a special day for the Jewish people, and they did not want the bodies to stay on the crosses during this day. So they asked Pilate to break the men's legs and take their bodies down.

Jesus' mother stood beside his cross with her sister and Mary the wife of Clopas. Mary Magdalene was standing there too.

When the women ran from the tomb, they were confused and shaking all over. They were too afraid to tell anyone what had happened.

Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph were watching and saw where the body was placed.

She has done all she could by pouring perfume on my body to prepare it for burial.

Jesus was eating in Bethany at the home of Simon, who once had leprosy, when a woman came in with a very expensive bottle of sweet-smelling perfume. After breaking it open, she poured the perfume on Jesus' head.

Earlier, Asa had his own tomb cut out of a rock hill in Jerusalem. So he was buried there, and the tomb was filled with spices and sweet-smelling oils. Then the people built a bonfire in his honor.

It was Friday, and the Sabbath was about to begin.

It was now the evening before the Sabbath, and the Jewish people were getting ready for that sacred day.

Joseph gave orders for Jacob's body to be embalmed,

Very early on Sunday morning, just as the sun was coming up, they went to the tomb.

Very early on Sunday morning the women went to the tomb, carrying the spices they had prepared.




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