"Some women were watching from a distance."
The women had to be there. The passage tells us the women had been followers "and cared for his needs". My guess is that their love for him demanded that they be close by as he died. They could not stop his death but they could not abandon him in those terrible hours. Of course, this is just speculation. But what else could be the answer to their presence when the disciple are no where to be seen and his enemies are in control? They loved him and in the final hours of his life they expressed it in the only way possible. They were present.
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