but all his acquaintances stood at a distance, including the women who had followed him from Galilee and saw these events. The Burial of Jesus.
My family has withdrawn from me, my friends are wholly estranged.
When my spirit is faint within me, you know my path. As I go along this path, they have hidden a trap for me.
My heart shudders, my strength forsakes me; the very light of my eyes has failed.
All day they surge round like a flood; from every side they encircle me.
But Mary Magdalene and the other Mary remained sitting there, facing the tomb. The Guard at the Tomb.
Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses watched where he was laid.
A large crowd of people followed Jesus, including many women who mourned and lamented him.
The women who had come from Galilee with him followed behind, and when they had seen the tomb and the way in which his body was laid in it,
and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,