Mark 16:1:
16:1And (after) the sabbath having throughly-come-to-pass, Mary the Magdalene and Mary the (mother) of James and Salome bought spices in order that having come they may anoint him.
After the sabbath of first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread had passed-by (when the special high day on Thursday 15th Nisan was over), on Friday 16th Nisan which was not a sabbath these three women (refer to Mark 15:40 and 41) bought spices (purchased aromatic items as in a marketplace) for the purpose and result that after they went to where Jesus was buried they would anoint him (smear his dead body in the traditional fashion for burial).
On Wednesday 14th Nisan the women had seen how Joseph from Arimathea did not anoint the body with spices but only enwrapped it with a linen-cloth. In addition, they had not seen that after they went away from the memorial-place before sunset, Nicodemus also came there and he anointed the body with spices (refer to John 19:39-42).
It is recorded in Matthew 27:62-68 that on the morning of Thursday 15th Nisan the chief-priests and Pharisees went to the grave where Jesus was buried and they secured it with their temple guard so it could not be opened and no-one could get inside and take the body of Jesus away from there and change the purpose of these Judean/Israeli religious leaders. This would have also stopped any of Jesus’ followers, including the 3 women referred to in verse 1 above, from going into the grave during Thursday 15th or Friday 16th and should have included Saturday 17th – but late on Saturday 17th Nisan God raised Jesus up alive from being dead!
[Reference: Luke 23:56a.]
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