Thematic Bible: How performed by the jews
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Embalming » How performed by the jews
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.
They took therefore the body of Jesus and bound it up in linen with the spices, as it is the custom with the Jews to prepare for burial.