Verse 40
And there were also women beholding from afar: among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome.
Mary Magdalene, out of whom Christ cast seven devils, another Mary, the mother of James the less and Joses, and Salome, the mother of the sons of Zebedee, James and John, are the three women.
Beholding from afar ... The relative distance of the women from the cross itself, appearing quite near in some accounts, and far away, as here, refers to different times of the day when the women were first in one place, then in another. The stereotyped view of the women standing stock still in a single spot all day is impossible of being true.
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