1. AND WHEN the Sabbath was past [that is, after the sun had set], Mary Magdalene, and Mary [the mother] of James, and Salome purchased sweet-smelling spices, so that they might go and anoint [Jesus' body].
2. And very early on the first day of the week they came to the tomb; [by then] the sun had risen.
3. And they said to one another, Who will roll back the stone for us out of [the groove across the floor at] the door of the tomb?
4. And when they looked up, they [distinctly] saw that the stone was already rolled back, for it was very large.