Matthew 27:61 (WEB)
Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb.
As quoted in the map (KJV)
Matthew 27:61 (KJV)
And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.
Key words
- ἡ ἄλλη Μαρίαhē allē Maria · Greek
- 'the other Mary' — Matthew's name for 'Mary the mother of James and Joses' (27:56), repeated at 28:1.
Why it matters
Matthew calls the woman he had just named 'the mother of James and Joses' simply 'the other Mary.' Pitre's lead argument on the brothers of Jesus rests on this identification (pp 105–106): the mother of the first two 'brothers' is a Mary who is not the mother of Jesus, alive at the tomb on Easter morning. She cannot be a dead first wife of Joseph, and her sons are Jesus' kinsmen.
Fathers and councils · 18
Augustine of Hippo
“Matthew proceeds thus: “And there was there Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxvii. 61.
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John Chrysostom
““And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxvii. 61. [R.V., “And Mary Magdalene was there,” etc.]
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Remigius of AuxerreCatena Aurea on Matthew
Arimathea is the same as Ramatha, the city of Helcana and Samuel, and is situated in the Chananitic country near Diospolis. This Joseph was a man of great dignity in respect of worldly station, but has the praise of…
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He is described as rich, not out of any ambition on the part of the writer to represent so noble and rich a man as Jesus’ disciple, but to shew how he was able to obtain the body of Jesus from Pilate. For poor and…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
Consider this man’s courage; he risked his life, and took upon him many enmities in order to render this service; and not only dares to ask for Christ’s body, but also to bury it.
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By this simple burial of the Lord is condemned the ostentation of the rich, who cannot dispense with lavish expense even in their tombs. But we may also consider in a spiritual sense, that the Lord’s body was wrapped…
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Or, otherwise; The linen is grown out of the ground, and is bleached to whiteness with great labour, and thus this signifies that His body which was taken of the earth, that is of a Virgin, through the toil of…
Read the whole comment - Rabanus MaurusCatena Aurea on Matthew
From this also has prevailed in the Church the custom of celebrating the sacrifice of the altar not in silk, or in coloured robes, but in linen grown from the earth, as we read, was ordered by the Holy Pope Silvester.
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The Saviour was laid in a tomb belonging to another man, because He died for the salvation of others. For why should He who in Himself had no death, have been laid in His own tomb? Or He whose place was reserved for…
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He is laid in a new tomb, lest after His resurrection it should be pretended that it was some other who had risen when they saw the other bodies there remaining. The new tomb may also signify the virgin womb of Mary.…
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Had the tomb been in the earth, it might have been said they undermined the place, and so carried Him off. Had a small stone been laid thereon, they might have said, They carried Him off while we slept.
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That a great stone was rolled there, shews that the tomb could not have been reopened without the united strength of many.
Read the whole comment - Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on Matthew
Mystically, Joseph affords a figure of the Apostles. He wraps the body in a clean linen cloth, in which same linen sheet were let down to Peter out of heaven all manner of living creatures; whence we understand, that…
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This is no casual mention of the circumstances that the body was wrapped in clean linen, and laid in a new tomb, and a great stone rolled to the month, but that every thing touching the body of Jesus is clean, and…
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When the Lord’s body was buried, and the rest returned to their own places, the women alone, who had loved Him more attachedly adhered to Him, and with anxious care noted the place where the Lord’s body was laid,…
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The mother of the sons of Zebedee is not mentioned as having sat over against the sepulchre. And perhaps she was able to endure as far as the cross only, but these as stronger in love were not absent even from the…
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Or, when the rest left the Lord, the women continued in their attendance, looking for what Jesus had promised; and therefore they deserved to be the first to see the resurrection, because “he that endureth to the end…
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And to this day the holy women, that is, the lowly souls of the saints, do the like in this present world, and with pious assiduity wait while Christ’s passion is being completed.
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Cross-references · 2
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 27:57–61 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 27:57–61 (5) (Catena Aurea).