John 19:39
And Nicodemus also came, (he who at the first came to Jesus by night,) bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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2 Chronicles 16:14And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had made for himself in the city of David: and they laid him on his bed full of spices and odoriferous ointments, which were made by the art of the perfumers, and they burnt them over him with very great pomp.
Proverbs 7:17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Song of Solomon 4:14Spikenard and saffron, sweet cane and cinnamon, with all the trees of Libanus, myrrh and aloes with all the chief perfumes.
Matthew 19:30And many that are first, shall be last: and the last shall be first.
John 3:1And there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
John 12:7Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of my burial.
Matthew Henry on John 19:39-42
The Burial of Christ. 38 And after this Joseph of Arimathæa, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus. 39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pound weight. 40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is… Read the whole commentary →