61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.
61 Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.
61 Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb.
61 But Mary Magdalene and the other Mary stayed, sitting in plain view of the tomb.
61 And Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb.
61 Both Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting across from the tomb and watching.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Matthew 27:61
Commentary on Matthew 27:57-61
(Read Matthew 27:57-61)
In the burial of Christ was nothing of pomp or solemnity. As Christ had not a house of his own, wherein to lay his head, while he lived, so he had not a grave of his own, wherein to lay his body, when he was dead. Our Lord Jesus, who had no sin of his own, had no grave of his own. The Jews designed that he should have made his grave with the wicked, should have been buried with the thieves with whom he was crucified, but God overruled it, so that he should make it with the rich in his death, Isaiah 53:9. And although to the eye of man the beholding a funeral may cause terror, yet if we remember how Christ by his burial has changed the nature of the grave to believers, it should make us rejoice. And we are ever to imitate Christ's burial in being continually occupied in the spiritual burial of our sins.