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Updated Bible Version

Mark 15:47

And Mary Magdalene and Mary the [mother] of Joses looked at where he was laid.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Joseph;   Joses;   Mary;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Distinctions of Women;   Fidelity;   Mary;   Women;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Burial;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Mary;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Mary Magdalene;   Mary of Cleophas;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Body;   Joseph;   Mark, the Gospel of;   Mary;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Joseph;   Joses;   Mark, Gospel According to;   Mary;   Mss;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Joseph (2);   Joses ;   Mary;   Passion Week;   Surname;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Joses ;   Mary, Wife of Cleophas;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Mary;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ma'ry;   Ma'ry Magdalene;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Mary;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Joseph (1);   Joses;   Mary;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - James;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses were watching where he was laid.
King James Version (1611)
And Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of Ioses behelde where he was laide.
King James Version
And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.
English Standard Version
Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.
New American Standard Bible
Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses were watching to see where He was laid.
New Century Version
And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph saw the place where Jesus was laid.
Amplified Bible
Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses were [carefully] watching to see where He was laid.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses were looking on to see where He was laid.
Legacy Standard Bible
And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses were looking on to see where He had been laid.
Berean Standard Bible
Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph saw where His body was laid.
Contemporary English Version
Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph were watching and saw where the body was placed.
Complete Jewish Bible
Miryam of Magdala and Miryam the mother of Yosi saw where he had been laid.
Darby Translation
And Mary of Magdala and Mary the [mother] of Joses saw where he was put.
Easy-to-Read Version
Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw the place where Jesus was put.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Marie Magdalene, and Marie Ioses mother, behelde where he should be layed.
George Lamsa Translation
But Mary of Magdala and Mary the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.
Good News Translation
Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph were watching and saw where the body of Jesus was placed.
Lexham English Bible
Now Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was placed.
Literal Translation
And Mary Magdalene, and Mary of Joses, saw where He was laid.
American Standard Version
And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.
Bible in Basic English
And Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was put.
Hebrew Names Version
Miryam from Magdala and Miryam, the mother of Yosi, saw where he was laid.
International Standard Version
Now Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph saw where he was laid.
Etheridge Translation
But Mariam Magdalitha and Mariam, she who was (the mother) of Josi, beheld where he was laid.
Murdock Translation
47 And Mary Magdalena and Mary [fn] of Joses saw where he was laid.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Marie Magdalene, and Marie Ioses, behelde where he was layde.
English Revised Version
And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.
World English Bible
Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses, beheld where he was laid.
Weymouth's New Testament
Mary of Magdala and Mary the mother of Joses were looking on to see where He was put.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Marie Maudeleyne and Marie of Joseph bihelden, where he was leid.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Mary Magdalene and Mary [the mother] of Joses, beheld where he was laid.
New English Translation
Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where the body was placed.
New King James Version
And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses observed where He was laid.
New Living Translation
Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph saw where Jesus' body was laid.
New Life Bible
Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where He was laid.
New Revised Standard
Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where the body was laid.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, Mary the Magdalene, and Mary the mother of Joses, were viewing how he had been laid.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of Joseph, beheld where he was laid.
Revised Standard Version
Mary Mag'dalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And Mary Magdalen and Mary Ioses beheld where he was layde.
Young's Literal Translation
and Mary the Magdalene, and Mary of Joses, were beholding where he is laid.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But Mary Magdalene and Mary Ioses behelde, where he was layed.
Mace New Testament (1729)
and Mary the mother of Joses, took notice where he was laid.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joseph, watched the burial happen.

Contextual Overview

42 And when evening was now come, because it was the Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath, 43 there came Joseph of Arimathaea, a councilor of honorable estate, who also himself was looking for the kingdom of God; and he boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. 44 And Pilate marveled if he were already dead: and calling to him the captain, he asked him whether he had been any while dead. 45 And when he learned it of the captain, he granted the corpse to Joseph. 46 And he bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. 47 And Mary Magdalene and Mary the [mother] of Joses looked at where he was laid.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Mark 15:40, Mark 16:1, Matthew 27:61, Matthew 28:1, Luke 23:55, Luke 23:56, Luke 24:1, Luke 24:2

Reciprocal: Leviticus 2:6 - General Matthew 13:55 - and his Matthew 27:56 - Mary the Mark 16:3 - Who Mark 16:9 - he appeared Luke 23:49 - the women John 11:34 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of Joses,.... Or Joseph, as the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions read:

beheld where he was laid: very likely they saw Joseph, and his men, take him down from the cross, and they followed him, and observed where he laid him; or, as the Ethiopic version reads, "where they buried him"; placing themselves, as Matthew suggests, right "over against the sepulchre", Matthew 27:61; so that they were witnesses of his death, and of his burial, as they afterwards were of his resurrection from the dead.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Beheld where he was laid - The affection of these pious females never forsook them, in all the trials and sufferings of their Lord. With true love they followed him to the cross; they came as near to him as they were permitted to come in his last moments; they followed him when taken down and laid in the tomb. The strong, the mighty, the youthful, had fled; but female love never forsook him, even in his deepest humiliation. This is the nature of true love; it is strongest in such scenes. While “professed” attachment will abound in prosperity and live most in sunshine, it is only genuine love that will go into the dark shades of adversity and flourish there. In scenes of poverty, want, affliction, and death, it shows its genuineness. That which lives there is genuine. That which turns away from such scenes is spurious.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Mark 15:47. Beheld where he was laid. — The courage and affection of these holy women cannot be too much admired. The strength of the Lord is perfected in weakness; for here a timid man, and a few weak women, acknowledge Jesus in death, when the strong and the mighty utterly forsook him.

HUMAN strength and human weakness are only names in religion. The mightiest MAN, in the hour of trial, can do nothing without the strength of God; and the weakest WOMAN can do all things, if Christ strengthen her. These truths are sufficiently exemplified in the case of Peter and all his brother disciples on the one hand; and Joseph of Arimathea and the two Marys on the other. And all this is recorded, equally to prevent both presumption and despair. Reader, let not these examples be produced before thee in vain.


 
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