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When did the women procure materials for embalming Jesus?
Luke: “They returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the Sabbath Day” (xxiii, 56).
Mark (New Ver.): “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” (xvi, 1).
According to Luke they prepared the spices before the Sabbath began, that is, before the end of the sixth day; according to Mark, they did not procure them until “the Sabbath was past,” that is, not until the beginning of the first day.