Thematic Bible: With spices
Thematic Bible
Burial » With spices
And the sabbath being now past, Mary of Magdala, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought aromatic spices that they might come and embalm him.
And having returned they prepared aromatic spices and ointments, and remained quiet on the sabbath, according to the commandment.
And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had excavated for himself in the city of David, and laid him in a bed filled with spices, a mixture of divers kinds prepared by the perfumer's art; and they made a very great burning for him.