Charles Ellicott Commentary Luke 23:49

"And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed with him from Galilee, stood afar off, seeing these things." — Luke 23:49 (ASV)

All his acquaintance.—This is the only passage in which the word is used. Saint Luke apparently employs it as intermediate between the spectators and the avowed disciples. Such may have been Simon, or Lazarus of Bethany, or the rulers who believed yet did not confess, or the owners of the donkey and of the colt, or the proprietor of the house in which the Passover had been eaten.

The women that had followed him from Galilee.—Saint Luke does not name them as Saint Matthew and Saint Mark do, probably because in Luke 8:2-3, he had already given the names of the most prominent among them.