John 19:40
“Then tooke they the body of Iesus, & wound it in linnen clothes, with the spices, as the maner of the Iewes is to burie:”
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John 19:40 Context
38¶ And after this, Ioseph of Arimathea (being a disciple of Iesus, but secretly for feare of the Iewes) besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Iesus, and Pilate gaue him leaue: he came therefore, and tooke the body of Iesus. 39And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Iesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrhe and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. 40Then tooke they the body of Iesus, & wound it in linnen clothes, with the spices, as the maner of the Iewes is to burie: 41Now in the place where he was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new Sepulchre, wherein was neuer man yet layd. 42There laid they Iesus therefore, because of the Iewes preparation day, for the Sepulchre was nigh at hand.
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Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
- King James Version
So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.
- New American Standard Version (1995)