He commanded his servants who were physicians to embalm his father. So they embalmed Israel.
John 19:39 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Nicodemus (who had previously come to him at night) also came, bringing a mixture of about forty kilograms of myrrh and aloes. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And Nicodemus also, who first had come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, [weighing] about a hundred pounds. American Standard Version (1901) And there came also Nicodemus, he who at the first came to him by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds. Common English Bible Nicodemus, the one who at first had come to Jesus at night, was there too. He brought a mixture of myrrh and aloe, nearly seventy-five pounds in all. Catholic Public Domain Version Now Nicodemus also arrived, (who had gone to Jesus at first by night) bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloe, weighing about seventy pounds. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
He commanded his servants who were physicians to embalm his father. So they embalmed Israel.
He was buried in his own tomb that he had made for himself in the city of David. They laid him out in a coffin that was full of spices and various mixtures of prepared ointments; then they made a great fire in his honour.
The one I love is a sachet of myrrh to me, spending the night between my breasts.
nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all the trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices.
Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh and the hill of frankincense.
He will not break a bruised reed, and he will not put out a smouldering wick, until he has led justice to victory.
Entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and falling to their knees, they worshipped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they could go and anoint him.
Then Mary took about half a litre of perfume, pure and expensive nard, anointed Jesus’s feet, and wiped his feet with her hair. So the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
Jesus answered, ‘Leave her alone; she has kept it for the day of my burial.