Text -- John 19:39 (NET)

19:39 Nicodemus, the man who had previously come to Jesus at night, accompanied Joseph, carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about seventy-five pounds.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Joh 19:39

¹ tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² sn See John 3:1-21.

³ tn Grk “came”; the words “accompanied Joseph” are not in the Greek text but are supplied for clarity.

⁴ sn Aloes refers to an aromatic resin from a plant similar to a lily, used for embalming a corpse.

⁵ sn The Roman pound (λίτρα, litra) weighed twelve ounces or 325 grams. Thus 100 Roman pounds would be about 32.5 kilograms or 75 pounds.