Thematic Bible: How performed by the jews
Thematic Bible
Embalming » How performed by the jews
And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
And they buried him in his own sepulcher, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet ointments and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer's art: and they made a very great fire in honor of him.
Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.