8 Bible Verses about embalming
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And Nicodemus also, who had first come to Jesus at night, went, taking a roll of myrrh and aloes weighing about a hundred pounds. So they took Jesus' body, and wrapped it with the spices in bandages, in the Jewish way of preparing bodies for burial.
And he bought a linen sheet and took him down from the cross and wrapped him in the sheet, and laid him in a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock, and rolled a stone against the doorway of the tomb.
Then he took it down from the cross and wrapped it in linen and laid it in a tomb hewn in the rock, where no one had yet been laid.
When the Sabbath was over, Mary of Magdala, Mary, James's mother, and Salome bought spices, in order to go and anoint him.
but on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking spices they had prepared.
Jesus said, "Move the stone away." The dead man's sister, Martha, said to him, "Master, by this time he is decaying, for he has been dead four days."
The dead man came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and with his face muffled with a handkerchief. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him and let him move."
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The Dead » Preparation of, for burial » Embalming
So they took Jesus' body, and wrapped it with the spices in bandages, in the Jewish way of preparing bodies for burial.
The Dead » Embalming
So they took Jesus' body, and wrapped it with the spices in bandages, in the Jewish way of preparing bodies for burial.
Embalming » How performed by the jews
Then they went home, and prepared spices and perfumes. On the Sabbath they rested in obedience to the commandment,
So they took Jesus' body, and wrapped it with the spices in bandages, in the Jewish way of preparing bodies for burial.
Embalming » Learned by the jews in egypt
Embalming » Of jesus
When the Sabbath was over, Mary of Magdala, Mary, James's mother, and Salome bought spices, in order to go and anoint him.
And he bought a linen sheet and took him down from the cross and wrapped him in the sheet, and laid him in a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock, and rolled a stone against the doorway of the tomb.
Embalming » An attempt to defeat God's purpose
Embalming » Unknown to early patriarchs
Embalming » Time required for
Embalming » Not always practised by the jews
Jesus said, "Move the stone away." The dead man's sister, Martha, said to him, "Master, by this time he is decaying, for he has been dead four days."
