Then the Jews, (because it was the parasceve,) that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath day, (for that was a great sabbath day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of precious spikenard: and breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out upon his head.
And 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.