But those who were close friends of Jesus, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at a distance and watched.
“God has made my brothers my enemies, and my friends have become strangers.
Look around me and see. No one cares about me. I have no place of safety; no one cares if I live.
Because of my wounds, my friends and neighbors avoid me, and my relatives stay far away.
You have taken away my loved ones and friends. Darkness is my only friend.
Mary Magdalene and the other woman named Mary were sitting near the tomb.
And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph saw the place where Jesus was laid.
A large crowd of people was following Jesus, including some women who were sad and crying for him.
The women who had come from Galilee with Jesus followed Joseph and saw the tomb and how Jesus’ body was laid.
and also some women who had been healed of sicknesses and evil spirits: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;