Gospel of Mark 15.47 · 15.47

<p>The verse exists to fix a fact: the women saw where the body was laid. <span class="gk">ἐθεώρουν</span> is imperfect, a sustained watching, and it completes a chain Mark has been building, the same verb used of the women beholding the death from afar (15:40) and the rolled-back stone (16:4). In a world where a woman's testimony was legally discountable (Josephus, <em>Ant.</em> 4.219), the chain of custody for the empty tomb runs through their eyes, and Mary the Magdalene heads the pair that keeps it.</p>

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