Mark 16:1

Easy To Read Version

The next day after the Sabbath day, {\cf2\super [235]} Mary from Magdala, Salome, and Mary the mother of James bought some sweet-smelling spices. They wanted to put the spices on Jesus’ body.

Cross References

Genesis 50:2

Joseph commanded his servants to prepare his father’s body. (These servants were doctors.) The doctors prepared Jacob’s body to be buried. They prepared the body in the special way of the Egyptians.

2 Chronicles 16:14

The people buried Asa in his own tomb that he made for himself in David’s City. The people laid him in a bed that was filled with spices and different kinds of mixed perfumes. The people made a large fire to honor Asa. {\cf2\super [203]}

Mark 14:3

Jesus was in Bethany. He was eating in the house of Simon the leper. {\cf2\super [192]} While Jesus was there a woman came to him. The woman had an alabaster {\cf2\super [193]} jar filled with very expensive perfume. This perfume was made of pure nard. {\cf2\super [194]} The woman opened the jar and poured the perfume on Jesus’ head.

Mark 14:8

This woman did the only thing she could do for me. She poured perfume on my body. She did this before I die to prepare me for burial.

Mark 15:40

Some women were standing away from the cross, watching. Some of these women were Mary from the town of Magdala, Salome, and Mary the mother of James and Joses. (James was her youngest son.)

Mark 15:42

This day was called Preparation day. (That means the day before the Sabbath day. {\cf2\super [233]})It was becoming dark.

Mark 15:47

Mary from Magdala and Mary the mother of Joses saw the place where Jesus was put.

Mark 16:2

Very early on that day, the first day of the week, the women were going to the tomb. {\cf2\super [236]} It was very early after sunrise.

Mark 16:8

The women were very afraid and confused. They left the tomb {\cf2\super [238]} and ran away. The women did not tell about what happened, because they were afraid.

Luke 23:54

This was late on Preparation day. {\cf2\super [384]} When the sun went down, the Sabbath day {\cf2\super [385]} would begin.

Luke 23:56

Then the women left to prepare some sweet-smelling spices \{to put on Jesus’ body\}.

Luke 24:1

Very early Sunday morning, the women came to the tomb (grave) where Jesus’ body was laid. They brought the sweet-smelling spices they had prepared.

John 19:25

Jesus’ mother stood near his cross. His mother’s sister was also standing there with Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.

John 19:31

This day was Preparation day. {\cf2\super [252]} The next day was a special Sabbath day. {\cf2\super [253]} The Jewish leaders did not want the bodies to stay on the cross on the Sabbath day. So they asked Pilate to order that the legs of the men be broken \{to make them die sooner\}. And they asked that the bodies of the men be taken down from the crosses.