Luke 23:44-56
The curtain of the temple was torn in two.
Jesus called out with a loud voice. "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." He breathed his last.
The centurion, seeing what had happened, praised God and said, "Surely this was a righteous man."
All those who knew him, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.
A man named Joseph, a member of the Council, a good and upright man who had not consented to their decision and action. He asked for Jesus' body and took it down, wrapped it in lien cloth and placed it in a tomb cut in the rock, one in which no one had yet been laid.
The women who had come with Jesus followed Joseph and saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it.
Why?
Usually gentiles know Jesus is the righteous man, is the Son of God. But most of the Jews who do not know Jesus is the Christ.
The women who had come with Jesus could not do anything, but they do what they can do, watching and following Jesus. It is showing the respecting and expressing their emotion.
About the sixth hour/noon: This was the fixed point of the day. Without clocks and watches, time can only be approximate. John says Jesus was sentenced by Pilate at the sixth hour, but may mean simply 'late morning'; Luke that Jesus was on the cross about midday.
The curtain divided the sanctuary from the body of the Temple. Just once a year the high priest passed through to intercede for the people. Now no intermediary is needed - all may have access to God.
How?
Like those women, the follower of Jesus Christ, always keep silent, but follow Jesus, watching what He does, and do what they can do for Jesus. So am I, don't have make known to the world what I have done, but let people know Jesus.
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