Charles Spurgeon Commentary Matthew 28:1

"Now late on the sabbath day, as it began to dawn toward the first [day] of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre." — Matthew 28:1 (ASV)

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 sepulcher.

While the Jewish Sabbath lasted, they paid to it due respect.

They did not even go to the sepulcher to perform the kindly service of embalming; but when the old Sabbath was dying away, and the new and better Sabbath began to dawn, these holy women found their way back to their Lord's tomb. Woman must be first at the sepulcher as she was last at the cross. We may well forget that she was first in the transgression; the honour which Christ put upon her took away that shame. Who but Mary Magdalene should be the first at the tomb?

Out of her Christ had cast seven devils, and now she acts as if he had sent seven angels into her. She had received so much grace that she was full of love for her Lord. 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 sepulcher. You can just see them in the gray light of the dawn; it is not clear enough to make out their form and shape; but in the twilight, they are coming into the garden and finding their way to the new sepulcher.

While the Jewish Sabbath lasted, they paid to it due respect. They did not even go to the sepulcher to perform the loving service of embalming, but when the old Sabbath was dying away and the new and better Sabbath began to dawn, these holy women found their way back to their Lord’s tomb.

Woman must be first at the sepulcher, as she was last at the cross. We may well forget that she was first in the transgression; the honor Christ bestowed upon her took away that shame.

Who but Mary Magdalene should be the first at the tomb? Out of her Christ had cast seven devils, and now she acts as if into her He had sent seven angels. She had received so much grace that she was full of love for her Lord.