Matthew 27:55
Good News Translation
There were many women there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee and helped him.

New Revised Standard Version
Many women were also there, looking on from a distance; they had followed Jesus from Galilee and had provided for him.

Contemporary English Version
Many women had come with Jesus from Galilee to be of help to him, and they were there, looking on at a distance.

New American Bible
There were many women there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there were there many women afar off, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:

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And there were there many women afar off, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:

many.

Luke 23:27,28,48,49 And there followed him a great multitude of people and of women, who bewailed and lamented him. . . .

John 19:25-27 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen. . . .

ministering.

Luke 8:2,3 And certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who is called Magdalen, out of whom seven devils were gone forth, . . .

Context
The Death of Jesus
54Now the centurion and they that were with him watching Jesus, having seen the earthquake and the things that were done, were sore afraid, saying: Indeed this was the Son of God. 55And there were there many women afar off, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him: 56Among whom was Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of James and Joseph and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.…
Cross References
Mark 15:40
And there were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of James the Less and of Joseph and Salome,

Mark 15:41
Who also when he was in Galilee followed him and ministered to him, and many other women that came up with him to Jerusalem.

Luke 8:2
And certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who is called Magdalen, out of whom seven devils were gone forth,

Luke 8:3
And Joanna the wife of Chusa, Herod's steward, and Susanna and many others who ministered unto him of their substance.

Luke 23:49
And all his acquaintance and the women that had followed him from Galilee stood afar off, beholding these things.

John 19:25
Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen.

Matthew 27:54
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