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When did they go to embalm the body?
Mark and Luke: “When the Sabbath was past, ... the first day of the week” ([Mark xvi, 1, 2]; [Luke xxiv, 1]).
Is it reasonable to suppose that in that warm spring climate (Dr. Geikie speaks of the fierce heat that prevailed at the time), they would let a wounded body lie two days, until decomposition had commenced, and then attempt to embalm it?