when the sabbath was past: i.e. the weekly sabbath. This was three nights and three days from the preparation day, when He was buried. See App-156.
had bought. Before the weekly sabbath (Luke 23:56; Luke 24:1).
sweet spices. aromatics.
Related Commentaries of Mark 16:1
Mark 16:1
1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.