This morning, when I read Marks’s account of Jesus’ resurrection, I found myself thinking of the physical and emotional exhaustion of the men and women who were close to Jesus, who knew him as the “Teacher,” their “Master.” In Mark, Matthew, and Luke, we read that “many women” watched Jesus’ crucifixion from afar.[1] Mark names three, “Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.”[2]
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