Nicodemus too--he who at first had visited Jesus by night--came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, in weight about seventy or eighty pounds.

Now there stood there six large stone jars, for the customary purifying ablution of the Jews, containing two or three baths each.

Jesus answered and said to them, Pull down this temple, and in three days I will rear it up again.

Then said the Jews, This temple has been forty-six years in building, and canst thou rear it up in three days?

'Wherefore was not this ointment sold for three hundred denaries, and given to the poor?'

Jesus answered him, "Would you lay down your life for me? I tell you emphatically, a rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times."

Simon Peter went up, and drew the net up on the land, full of great fishes, an hundred fifty and three, and though they were so many, the net was not rent.