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.
Parallel translations
- WEB Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.
- BSB Nicodemus, who had previously come to Jesus at night, also brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.
- NKJV And Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.
- NASB Nicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred litras weight.
- NLT With him came Nicodemus, the man who had come to Jesus at night. He brought about seventy-five pounds of perfumed ointment made from myrrh and aloes.
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Nicodemus brings a large amount of spices to honor Jesus' burial. The man who once came by night now publicly attends to Christ.
Overview
Nicodemus, who first sought Jesus secretly at night (John 3), now joins Joseph in an open act of devotion, bringing a costly, lavish quantity of myrrh and aloes fit for royalty. His transformation traces a movement from hidden curiosity to public reverence. The generous burial honors Jesus as the King he truly is.
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Cross-references · 11
- John 7:50–52Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)
- Song 4:14Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:
- John 3:1–21There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
- 2 Chr 16:14And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.
- Ps 45:8All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
- John 12:7Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
- Song 4:6Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
- Mark 16:1And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
- Matt 19:30But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.
- Matt 12:20A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.
- Prov 7:17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
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