“(Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered unto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem.”
Mark 15:41 — Greek Interlinear
Church Fathers on Mark 15:41
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…