Mark 15:37-41

It was no small thing that some of Jesus’s most faithful followers were women. In an age where women had little rights Jesus lifted them up and treated them equally with the men who followed him. The veil of the temple was rent in two and along with it the separation of man and God that sin had brought. Jesus died in our place allowing those who choose to believe in His birth, death and resurrection salvation. Male and female, Gentile and Jew, all of creation could come to Him and share in the Wedding Feast God prepared before the beginning of time.

These women were true disciples of Christ. They had ministered to Jesus’ needs and would be the first witnesses of His resurrection. 

Frequently, crucifixion produced a coma or unconsciousness prior to death, but Jesus was in control of all His faculties until the moment when He voluntarily gave up His life. No longer through priests and the blood of bulls and goats do we approach God, but through the torn veil, which also symbolizes Jesus’ broken and torn body. God Himself removed the barrier.

Mark 15:37-41

³⁷ And Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and breathed His last. 

³⁸ Then the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. ³⁹ So when the centurion, who stood opposite Him, saw that He cried out like this and breathed His last, he said, “Truly this Man was the Son of God!” 

⁴⁰ There were also women looking on from afar, among whom were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the Less and of Joses, and Salome, ⁴¹ who also followed Him and ministered to Him when He was in Galilee, and many other women who came up with Him to Jerusalem.