Now they were the same women apparently who prepared the spices and ointment and hastened therewith at break of day to the sepulchre.
Had we therefore only St.Matthew's Gospel we should have assumed that 'the ointment-bearers,' for so the ancients called them, were but two (St.Matt.xxviii.

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That they were at least three, even St.Mark shews by adding to their number Salome (xvi.

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But in fact their company consisted of more than four; as St.Luke explains when he states that it was the same little band of holy women who had accompanied our Saviour out of Galilee (xxiii.