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Was his body embalmed when it was laid in the sepulcher?
John: It was. “He [Joseph] came therefore, and took the body of Jesus. 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. 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” ([xix, 38–40]).
Mark and Luke: It was not embalmed. “The women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulcher, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments” ([Luke xxiii, 55, 56]); intending to embalm it “when the Sabbath was past” ([Mark xvi, 1]).