What Are You Looking For?  In the resurrection story that is
recorded in Luke, there is a group of women who go to the burial
place of Jesus to bring spices and oil to anoint Jesus’ body.
This is different than the story depicted in the book of John
where only Mary Magdalene goes to the tomb or in the book of
Mark where three women, Mary Magdalene, Mary, Jesus’ mother and
Salome go to Jesus’ burial place. I point this out because,
unlike the other gospel writers, Luke wanted his readers to
understand that Jesus was not just the messiah for the Jews as
depicted in Matthew but he wants his readers to know that Jesus
was the messiah, the anointed one, for the whole world.
Therefore, he has a large group of nameless women show up to
anoint their fallen leader, and it would have been presumed that
some of these women were gentiles. Now this seems more like the
Easter Services that we have in our churches these days, when a
whole extra group of people show up for their semi-annual church
experience. I used to enjo