# Connecting Statement:

This begins the account of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.

# Now late on the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week

"After the Sabbath ended, as the sun came up on Sunday morning"

# Now

This word is used here to mark a break in the main story line. Here Matthew starts to tell a new part of the story.

# the other Mary

"the other woman named Mary." This is Mary the mother of James and Joseph ([Matthew 27:56](../27/56.md)).