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Mark 15:41

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Mark 15:41 (WEB)

who, when he was in Galilee, followed him and served him; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.

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Augustine of Hippo

  • “Mark gives it in this form: “There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the Less and of Joseph, and Salome (who also, when He was in Galilee, followed Him, and ministered unto Him); and many other women which came up with Him unto Jerusalem.”” — editor's note: Mark xv. 40, 41.

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Jerome

  • “Mark also, “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”; and in the same place shortly after, “And many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem.”” — editor's note: S. Mark xv. 40, 41. For Joses, Jerome has Joseph.

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Catena Aurea on Mark

  • Glossa OrdinariaCatena Aurea on Mark

    After the Evangelist has related the Passion and the death of Christ, he now goes on to mention those things which followed after the death of our Lord. Wherefore it is said: “And the veil of the temple was rent in…

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  • JeromeCatena Aurea on Mark

    The veil of the temple is rent, that is, the heaven is opened.

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  • Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Mark

    Again, God by the rending of the veil implied that the grace of the Holy Spirit goes away and is rent from the temple, so that the Holy of holies might be seen by all; [ed. note: The sense of the passage by reference…

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  • BedeCatena Aurea on Mark

    Now the cause of the centurion’s wonder is clear, that seeing that the Lord died in that way, that is, sent forth His Spirit, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God.” For no one can send forth his own spirit,…

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  • Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Mark

    This also he most of all wondered at, that after that voice which He sent forth as a figure of our sin, He immediately gave up His Spirit. For the Spirit of the Mediator shewed that no penalty of sin could have had…

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  • JeromeCatena Aurea on Mark

    But the last are now made the first. The Gentile people confesses. The blinded Jew denies, so that their error is worse than the first.

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  • Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Mark

    And so the order is inverted, for the Jew kills, and the Gentile confesses; the disciples fly, and the women remain. For there follows: “There were also women looking on afar off, amongst whom was Mary Magdalene, and…

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  • OrigenCatena Aurea on Mark

    But it seems to me, that here three women are chiefly named, by Matthew and Mark. Two indeed are set down by each Evangelist, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James; the third is called by Matthew, the mother…

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  • BedeCatena Aurea on Mark

    He means by James the Less, the son of Alphaeus, who was also called the brother of our Lord, because he was the son of Mary, our Lord’s mother’s sister, whom John mentions, saying, “Now there stood by the cross of…

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  • JeromeCatena Aurea on Mark

    As the female sex through the Virgin Mary is not shut out from salvation, so it is not thrust away from the knowledge of the Mystery of the Cross, and of the Resurrection, through the widow Mary Magdalene, and the…

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Cross-references · 7

  • Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.22.

  • Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.22.

  • Cited together in Bede on Mark 15:38–41 (2) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.

  • Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.22.

  • Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.22.

  • Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.22.

  • Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.22.

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