It was Mary Magdalene,.... Out of whom Christ had cast seven devils, who was a sincere penitent, a true believer in Christ, and an affectionate lover of him, and to whom he first appeared: and Joanna; the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, one that had been a follower of Christ, and had ministered to him of her substance; see Luk 8:2 and Mary the mother of James; called the less; and also of Joses, and Simon, and Judas, the brethren, or kinsmen of Christ; this Mary, being the wife of Cleophas, or Alphaeus, said (k) to be the brother of Joseph, the husband of Mary, the mother of our Lord: and other women that were with them; as Salome, the mother of Zebedee's children, and others, that came from Galilee; Mar 15:40. which told these things unto the apostles; before observed. (k) Euseb. Eccl. Hist. l. 3. c. 11. 32. & 4. 22.