John 19:39 BSB — MannaFest

John 19:39

Nicodemus, who had previously come to Jesus at night, also brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And there came also Nicodemus, he who at the first came to him by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.

KJV

And 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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Cyril of Alexandria

Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 12 (444)

He says that this disciple was not alone in taking counsel wisely, as well as in fervent zeal, to go to dress the sacred Body for burial, but he makes mention of a second along with the first. This was Nicodemus, who completed the body of testimony to the event that is respected by the Law. For, says the Law: In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And there came also Nicodemus,.... To the cross, at the same time as Joseph did; who, whether they were brethren, as some conjecture, and met here by consent, since one prepared one thing, and another, for the interment of Christ, is not certain. This Nicodemus is thought to be the same with Nicodemus ben Gorion, the Talmudists speaks of, who, they say (u), was one of the three rich men in Jerusalem; as this appears to be a rich man, from the large quantity of myrrh and aloes he brought with him, and which must be very costly.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Nicodemus - See on Joh 3:1 (note), etc. Myrrh and aloes - Which drugs were used to preserve bodies from putrefaction. Calmet says that the aloes mentioned here is a liquor which runs from an aromatic tree, and is widely different from that called aloes among us. Some have objected that a hundred pounds’ weight of myrrh and aloes was enough to embalm two hundred dead bodies; and instead of ἑκατον, a hundred, some critics have proposed to read ἑκατερων - a mixture of myrrh and aloes, of about a pound Each. See Bowyer’s Conjectures.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἦλθεν	ēlthen	Came	G2064 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
Νικόδημος	Nikodēmos	Nicodemus	G3530 →
ὁ	ho	the [one]	G3588 →
ἐλθὼν	elthōn	having come	G2064 →
πρὸς	pros	to	G4314 →
αὐτὸν	auton	Him	G846 →
νυκτὸς	nuktos	by night	G3571 →
τὸ	to	at the	G3588 →
πρῶτον	prōton	first	G4413 →
φέρων	pherōn	bearing	G5342 →
μίγμα	migma	a mixture	G3395 →
σμύρνης	smurnēs	of myrrh	G4666 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀλόης	aloēs	aloes	G250 →
ὡς	hōs	about	G5613 →
λίτρας	litras	litras	G3046 →
ἑκατόν.¶	hekaton	a hundred.	G1540 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 19:30
But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.
leads to
- Matthew 20:16
  So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
- Luke 13:30
  And indeed, some who are last will be first, and some who are first will be last.”
- Mark 10:31
  But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.”
- Matthew 21:31–32
  Which of the two did the will of his father?” “The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before…
- Romans 5:20–21
  The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
Through
Song of Solomon 4:14
with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of frankincense tree, with myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices.
leads to
- Exodus 30:23
  “Take the finest spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half that amount (250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Song of Solomon 3:6
  Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant?
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Song of Solomon 4:6
  Before the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.