Treasury of Scripture
the end. The Hebrew word Schabbath, from which our English word is derived, signifies rest, and is applied to all solemn festivals, equally with that one day of every week devoted to the worship of God; Eze.
Matthew 20:21 And he said to her, What will you? She said to him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on your right hand...
, 'they polluted my sabbaths.' Three evangelists say, the transaction recorded in this verse, occurred upon the first day of the week, early in the morning, about sunrising, and John says, while it was yet dark. [Opse sabbaton,] does not signify 'in the evening of sabbath,' but 'sabbaths.' Hence, the great feast having been concluded, the term 'end of the sabbaths' denotes the time very clearly. Again, it may be observed that the Jews, speaking of their passover, sometimes speak according to their civil computation, wherein they measured their days from sun-rising to sun-rising. Sometimes according to their sacred computation, which was from sun-set to sun-set. This reconciles
Numbers 28:18 In the first day shall be an holy convocation; you shall do no manner of servile work therein:
, which seems to make the fourteenth day of the first month, the first day of unleavened bread.
Mark 16:1,2 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices...
Luke 23:56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
Luke 24:1,22 Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared...
John 20:1 The first day of the week comes Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, to the sepulcher...
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Mary Magdalene.
Matthew 27:56,61 Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedees children...