In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
Ver. 1. The first day of the week] Greek, of the sabbaths, εις μιαν σαββατων. One day of seven is due to God of necessity. This the Scripture calls by an excellency the sabbath day, without a difference; as if it were the eldest brother to all the days of the week, which is called here and elsewhere sabbaths, in the plural, LXXE Psalms 24:1, title, "A psalm of David." To this the Greek addeth, "of the first day of the week," which now is the Christian sabbath, called "the Lord's day,"Revelation 1:10, in honour of Christ, and in a thankful remembrance of his resurrection. See Trapp on " Joh 20:1 "
To see the sepulchre] To see what the Pharisees had done with the Lord's body the day before (for they knew they had been tampering, and feared the worst, as love is suspicious) and to bring the spices, which by an easy error they had prepared, Luke 24:1. They knew not, belike, that Joseph and Nicodemus had been at that cost and pains before them; neither did any of them consider that what they did herein was superfluous, for that it was "impossible for God's holy one to see corruption,"Acts 2:27. But he is pleased to pass by our well meant weaknesses, where the heart is upright.