The devotion of the women at the death and resurrection of Jesus is extraordinary and deserves special note.

Mary Lowman asks 'Why were all these women there at this ugly scene? It was not a place for a woman; unless it was your close relative, no woman would have gone to such a horrible place.  Yet there were all these women at the cross of Jesus.  These women had gathered there to mourn and to wail the crucifixion of their Savior, Jesus Christ.'

She answers:

'They were there because they loved Jesus.  They had been delivered from their sins and their pasts by Jesus, and they were determined to stay with him until the end, as ugly as it was.  Can you even imagine what it meant for these women to stay there throughout the whole crucifixion?'

Mark 15:40

40 There were also women watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome. 41 In Galilee these women followed him and took care of him. Many other women had come up with him to Jerusalem.