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Mark 16:1

And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.

KJV

Καὶ διαγενομένου τοῦ σαββάτου Μαρία ἡ Μαγδαληνὴ καὶ Μαρία ἡ Ἰακώβου καὶ Σαλώμη ἠγόρασαν ἀρώματα, ἵνα ἐλθοῦσαι ἀλείψωσιν αὐτόν.

Greek NT

Et cum transisset sabbatum, Maria Magdalene, et Maria Jacobi, et Salome emerunt aromata ut venientes ungerent Jesum.

Vulgate

And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.

ASV

And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought sweet spices, that coming, they might anoint Jesus.

Douay-Rheims

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In this verse

People MaryJamesJamesMaryMary MagdaleneJamesSalomeMaryMary

In the original Greek

14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Μαγδαληνή
magdalene
noun · 12×
Μαρία
maria
noun · 54×
Σαλώμη
salome
noun · 2×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
διαγίνομαι
diaginomai
verb · 3×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
σάββατον
sabbaton
noun · 68×
ἀγοράζω
agorazo
verb · 30×
ἀλείφω
aleipho
verb · 9×
ἄρωμα
aroma
noun · 4×
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
verb · 627×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
Ἰάκωβος
iakobos
noun · 42×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: Μαρία | Treg/NIV/RP: Μαρία | WH: ἡ Μαρία
  • ΜαρίαSBLGNT
  • ΜαρίαTregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
  • ἡ ΜαρίαWestcott-Hort
source: sblgnt-apparatus
trivial
SBLGNT: ἡ τοῦ | WH/Treg/NIV: ἡ τοῦ
  • ἡ τοῦSBLGNT
  • ἡ τοῦWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§641Mary Magdalene and the holy women who came to finish anointing the body of Jesus, which had been buried in haste because the Sabbath began on the evening of Good Friday, were the first to encounter the Risen One.497 Thus the women were the first messengers of Christ's Resurrection for the apostles themselves.498 They were the next to whom Jesus appears: first Peter, then the Tw…
§2174Jesus rose from the dead "on the first day of the week."104 Because it is the "first day," the day of Christ's Resurrection recalls the first creation. Because it is the "eighth day" following the sabbath,105 it symbolizes the new creation ushered in by Christ's Resurrection. For Christians it has become the first of all days, the first of all feasts, the Lord's Day (he kuriake…

Cross-references

  • 2Chr 16:14 — And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apo
  • 2Chr 16:14 — And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apo
  • Acts 1:14 — These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
  • Gen 50:2 — And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
  • John 19:25 — Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
  • John 19:31 — The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might b
  • John 19:39 — And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
  • John 20:1 — The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
  • John 20:1 — The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
  • Luke 8:2 — And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils,
  • Luke 23:54 — And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.
  • Luke 23:56 — And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
  • Luke 23:56 — And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
  • Luke 24:1 — Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
  • Mark 14:3 — And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his
  • Mark 14:8 — She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
  • Mark 15:40 — There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;
  • Mark 15:42 — And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
  • Mark 15:47 — And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.
  • Mark 15:47 — And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.
  • Mark 16:8 — And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid.
  • Matt 26:12 — For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
  • Matt 28:1 — In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
  • Matt 28:1 — In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.