Thematic Bible: How performed by the jews
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Embalming » How performed by the jews
Then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes. And on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
They buried him in his own tomb which he had cut out for himself in the city of David, and they laid him in the resting place which he had filled with spices of various kinds blended by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him.
So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.