Myrrh and aloes were both used in embalming.

ies! (It’s also interesting that the author insists that it was brought by Ni…cting purgative, which would therefore have been useful to help expel the poison from Jesus’s body. One wonders therefore why on earth this was being brought to the burial of a person believed to be dead, and in such vast quantities! (It’s also interesting that the author insists that it was brought by Nicodemus, the same Pharisee w…
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Tony Atkinson
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Myrrh and aloes were both used in embalming. The quantities in the text suggest that use rather than the smaller amounts needed for therapeutic use.
Given that Yeshu'a was supposed to have been from Galilee, embalming the body to be taken home for burial, or to preserve it until family members could reach Jerusalem for the ceremony, would be quite sensible.
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