John 19:39 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁹And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.

John 19:39 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 7:50-52
Nicodemus saith unto them,(he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,) …
John 3:1-21
There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: …
Song of Solomon 4:14
Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:
Matthew 19:30
But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.
2 Chronicles 16:14
And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.

Topics

Burial Coffin Cremation Dead (people)Funerals Grave Sepulchre Spices

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 38-42)

We have here an account of the burial of the blessed body of our Lord Jesus. The solemn funerals of great men are usually looked at with curiosity; the mournful funerals of dear friends are attended with concern. Come and see an extraordinary funeral; never was the like! Come and see a burial that conquered the grave, and buried it, a burial that beautified the grave and softened it for all believ…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 39)

38-40. Joseph of Arimathea--“a rich man” (Mt 27:57), thus fulfilling Is 53:9; “an honorable counsellor,” a member of the Sanhedrim, and of good condition, “which also waited for the kingdom of God” (Mr 15:43), a devout expectant of Messiah’s kingdom; “a good man and a just, the same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them” (Lu 23:50, 51--he had gone the length, perhaps, of dissenting and…