And there was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary
The wife of Cleophas, and the mother of James and of Joses:
sitting over against the sepulchre;
observing where the body of Christ was put, and how it was laid;
for they intended to prepare spices and ointments to anoint it
with; and were mourning for the death of Christ: for sitting was
a mourning posture, which now they were allowed, the body being
taken down from the cross, and interred by leave of the governor;
for, for one that died as a malefactor, they might not use the
outward signs of mourning: the canon is this {w}; for such
``they do not mourn, but they grieve; and there is no grieving but in the heart:''hence these women before stood, ( John 19:25 ) , but now they sat.
F23 Misn. Sarhedrin, c. 6. sect. 4.
