Luke 23:55
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New International Version (©2011)
The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph and saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it.

New Living Translation (©2007)
As his body was taken away, the women from Galilee followed and saw the tomb where his body was placed.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The women who had come with him from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was laid.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Now the women who had come with Him out of Galilee followed, and saw the tomb and how His body was laid.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The women who had come with Him from Galilee followed along and observed the tomb and how His body was placed.

International Standard Version (©2012)
So the women who had come with Jesus from Galilee, following close behind, saw the tomb and how his body was laid.

NET Bible (©2006)
The women who had accompanied Jesus from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
But these women who came with him from Galilee were approaching and they saw the tomb and how his body had been laid.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed closely behind Joseph. They observed the tomb and how his body was laid in it.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the women also, who came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulcher, and how his body was laid.

American King James Version
And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulcher, and how his body was laid.

American Standard Version
And the women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and beheld the tomb, and how his body was laid.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the women that were come with him from Galilee, following after, saw the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.

Darby Bible Translation
And women, who had come along with him out of Galilee, having followed, saw the sepulchre and how his body was placed.

English Revised Version
And the women, which had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and beheld the tomb, and how his body was laid.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the women also, who came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulcher, and how his body was laid.

Weymouth New Testament
The women--those who had come with Jesus from Galilee--followed close behind, and saw the tomb and how His body was placed.

World English Bible
The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid.

Young's Literal Translation
and the women also who have come with him out of Galilee having followed after, beheld the tomb, and how his body was placed,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

23:50-56 Many, though they do not make any show in outward profession, yet, like Joseph of Arimathea, will be far more ready to do real service, when there is occasion, than others who make a greater noise. Christ was buried in haste, because the sabbath drew on. Weeping must not hinder sowing. Though they were in tears for the death of their Lord, yet they must prepare to keep holy the sabbath. When the sabbath draws on, there must be preparation. Our worldly affairs must be so ordered, that they may not hinder us from our sabbath work; and our holy affections so stirred up, that they may carry us on in it. In whatever business we engage, or however our hearts may be affected, let us never fail to get ready for, and to keep holy, the day of sacred rest, which is the Lord's day.

Pulpit Commentary

Verses 55. 56. - And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments. The real process of embalming, the women who were of the company of Jesus - the Maries, Salome, and others - proposed to undertake as soon as the sabbath was passed, that is, on the first day of the coming week - the Sunday. How little even his nearest and dearest friends dreamed of a resurrection of the body! It seems probable that they expected, at least some of them, a glorious reappearance of Jesus, but when, but how, they had evidently formed no definite conception. None, however, seemed to have thought of the bodily resurrection which took place on the first day of the week- on that Sunday morning. St. Matthew (Matthew 27:62-66) relates how, after the entombment, the chief priests and Pharisees went to Pilate and asked that the sepulchre might, "until the third day," be made sure; and how the Roman governor bade them take such precautions as seemed good to them. These - his bitter opponents - were more clearsighted than his friends. They had some dim fears of something which might still follow, while his disciples, in their hopeless sorrow, thought nil was over. And rested the sabbath day according to the commandment. "It was the last sabbath of the old covenant. It was scrupulously respected" (Godet).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the women also which came with him from Galilee,.... See Gill on Luke 23:49.

followed after; Joseph; and those that were with him, when they carried the body of Jesus, in order to inter it:

and beheld, the sepulchre; took notice of it, what an one it was, whereabout it stood in the garden, that they might know, and find it again:

and how his body was laid; in what position, form, and order; and observed that it was only wrapped in linen, and not anointed, or embalmed.

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The Burial of Jesus
…54And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on. 55And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulcher, and how his body was laid. 56And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.

Luke 8:2 and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had come out;
Luke 23:49 But all those who knew him, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.