‘And Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.'

Meanwhile two of the women, probably delegated by the others, had followed the burial party, and were now sat down opposite the tomb. ‘The other Mary' is probably the mother of James and Joses. Thus the care and love of the women is watching over their dead Master from the cross to the tomb (Matthew 27:56; Matthew 27:61). Mary had brought Him into the world. Marys would care for His body as well as they could as they saw Him out of the world. It was all that they could do.

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