MARK 15:40 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“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;”
Some women were watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joseph, and Salome — the women watching from a distance are the faithful witnesses when the twelve have fled. Mary Magdalene is named first in every Gospel's resurrection account. The women who follow from Galilee (verse 41) are the continuity of witness between the death and the resurrection — they are present at the cross, the burial, and the empty tomb.
Church Fathers on Mark 15:40
After the Evangelist has related the Passion and the death of Christ, he now goes on to mention those things which followed after the death of our Lord.
The veil of the temple is rent, that is, the heaven is opened.
Again, God by the rending of the veil implied that the grace of the Holy Spirit goes away and is rent from the temple, so that the Holy of holies might be seen by all; [ed. note: The sense of the passage by reference to Theophylact appears to be, that as the Jews used to rend their clothes as a sign of grief, so the temple by the rending of its veil might be said to mourn.] also that the temple will mourn amongst the Jews, when they shall deplore their calamities, and rend…
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