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Matthew 27:55

Matthew 27:55

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Many women. These are mentioned as witnesses of all these events which the apostles are not recorded to have seen. Courageous and loving, they had followed the procession to Calvary, and at a distance watched the woeful proceedings there.

Some, we know, had ventured to come closer to their dying Lord (see ). Which followed (equivalent to had followed) Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him. They had accompanied Jesus on his last journey to the Passover at Jerusalem, tending him during all the time, and of their substance ministering to his wants ().

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