6 Bible Verses about Myrrh

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Revelation 18:11-13

The businessmen of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because no one can buy their cargoes anymore -- cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones, fine linen, silk, and scarlet, all kinds of citron wood, all kinds of goods in ivory and costly woods, bronze, iron, and marble, cinnamon, spices, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, carriages, slaves, and the lives of human beings.

Mark 15:22-23

And they led Him to Golgotha, which means, the Place of the Skull. They offered Him wine flavored with myrrh, but He would not take it.

John 19:38-40

After this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked permission of Pilate to remove the body of Jesus, and Pilate granted it. So he went and removed His body. Now Nicodemus also, who had formerly come to Jesus at night, went and took a mixture of myrrh and aloes that weighed about one hundred pounds. So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in bandages with the spices, in accordance with the Jewish custom of preparing a body for burial.

Mark 15:23

They offered Him wine flavored with myrrh, but He would not take it.

John 19:38

After this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked permission of Pilate to remove the body of Jesus, and Pilate granted it. So he went and removed His body.

From Thematic Bible


Gilead » Exported spices » Balm » myrrh

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » myrrh

myrrh » Used as a perfume

myrrh » A product of the land of canaan

myrrh » Traffic in

myrrh » Used for embalming

John 19:39

Now Nicodemus also, who had formerly come to Jesus at night, went and took a mixture of myrrh and aloes that weighed about one hundred pounds.

myrrh » One of the compounds in the sacred anointing oil

myrrh » Offered to jesus on the cross

Mark 15:23

They offered Him wine flavored with myrrh, but He would not take it.

myrrh » Brought by the wise men (magi) as a present to jesus

Oil » Kinds of, mentioned » myrrh

Shekel » Used to weigh » myrrh

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