John 19:25 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

There stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother, &c.— Neither her own danger, nor the sadness of the spectacle, nor the reproaches and insults of the people, could restrain our Lord's mother from performing the last sad office of duty and tenderness to her divine Son on the cross. Grotius justly observes, that it was a noble instance of fortitude and zeal. Now a sword, according to Simeon's prophesy, pierced through her very soul; and perhaps the extremity of her sorrows might so overwhelm her spirits, as to render her incapable of attending the sepulchre, which we do not find that she did. After this we do not meet with any thing concerning her in the sacred history, or in early antiquity, except that she continued among the disciples after our Lord's ascension, Acts 1:14. The popish writers, indeed, have given us a variety of ridiculous tales concerning her. Instead of the wife, some commentators read the daughter of Cleophas. There is no word in the original either for wife or daughter.