And all his acquaintances and the women who had followed him from Galilee stood at a distance watching these things.
In these verses we have three things: - I. Christ's dying magnified by the prodigies that attended it: only two are here mentioned, which we had an account of before. 1. The darkening of the sun at noon-day. It was now about the sixth hour, that is, according to our computation, twelve o'clock at noon; and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
Commenting on Luke 23:44-49
And the women also which came with him from Galilee,.... See Gill on Luk 23:49. followed after; Joseph; and those that were with him, when they carried the body of Jesus, in order to inter it: and beheld, the sepulchre; took notice of it, what an one it was, whereabout it stood in the garden, that they might know, and find it again: and how...
And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things. (16) Christ gathers together and defends his little flock in the midst of the tormentors.