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Mark 15:47

Eastern Fathers

Theophylact of Ohrid

There follows: And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.

Catena Aurea by Aquinas ↗

Western Saints

Bede

But Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph saw where he was laid. In Luke, we read that all his acquaintances and the women who followed him stood at a distance. Therefore, with Jesus' acquaintances returning to their own homes after his body was laid down, it was only the women who loved more fervently who cared to observe how he was placed, so they might offer him a fitting gift of devotion at an appropriate time. …

On the Gospel of Mark ↗