^19:39Nicodemus, the man who had previously come to Jesus¹¹¹ at night,¹¹² accompanied Joseph,¹¹³ carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes¹¹⁴ weighing about seventy-five pounds.¹¹⁵

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Footnotes

111 Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
113 Grk “came”; the words “accompanied Joseph” are not in the Greek text but are supplied for clarity.
114 Aloes refers to an aromatic resin from a plant similar to a lily, used for embalming a corpse.
115 The Roman pound (λίτρα, litra) weighed twelve ounces or 325 grams. Thus 100 Roman pounds would be about 32.5 kilograms or 75 pounds.

Cross references

112 See John 3:1–21.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds in weight.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Nicodemus (who had previously come to him at night) also came, bringing a mixture of about seventy-five pounds of myrrh and aloes.

NLTNew Living Translation

With him came Nicodemus, the man who had come to Jesus at night. He brought about seventy-five pounds of perfumed ointment made from myrrh and aloes.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And Nicodemus—the one who had come to him formerly at night—also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about a hundred pounds.

KJV 1900King James Version

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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