“And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?”
And they asked each other, who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb? — the question among themselves communicates the practical obstacle they realize they have not solved. The stone was very large (verse 4): beyond three women's ability to move. The question is the last moment of ordinary expectation before the extraordinary is encountered. They have come to anoint a corpse; they have not yet arrived at what they will find.
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