John 19:39

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Now there was one of the Pharisees whose name was Nicodemus--a ruler among the Jews.

Nicodemus interposed--he who had formerly gone to Jesus, being himself one of them.

A crushed reed He will not utterly break, nor will He quench the still smouldering wick, until He has led on Justice to victory.

"But many who are now first will be last, and many who are now last will be first.

But Jesus interposed. "Do not blame her," He said, "allow her to have kept it for the time of my preparation for burial.

In pouring this ointment over me, her object was to prepare me for burial.

and now he went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.