John 19:40
Good News Translation
The two men took Jesus' body and wrapped it in linen cloths with the spices according to the Jewish custom of preparing a body for burial.

New Revised Standard Version
They took the body of Jesus and wrapped it with the spices in linen cloths, according to the burial custom of the Jews.

Contemporary English Version
The two men wrapped the body in a linen cloth, together with the spices, which was how the Jewish people buried their dead.

New American Bible
They took the body of Jesus and bound it with burial cloths along with the spices, according to the Jewish burial custom.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They took therefore the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths, with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They took therefore the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths, with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

wound.

John 11:44 And presently he that had been dead came forth, bound feet and hands with winding bands. And his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus said to them: Loose him and let him go.

John 20:5-7 And when he stooped down, he saw the linen cloths lying: but yet he went not in. . . .

Acts 5:6 And the young men rising up, removed him, and carrying him out, buried him.

Context
The Burial of Jesus
39And Nicodemus also came (he who at the first came to Jesus by night), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. 40They took therefore the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths, with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury. 41Now there was in the place where he was crucified a garden: and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein no man yet had been laid.…
Cross References
Genesis 50:2
And he commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father.

2 Chronicles 16:14
And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had made for himself in the city of David: and they laid him on his bed full of spices and odoriferous ointments, which were made by the art of the perfumers, and they burnt them over him with very great pomp.

Matthew 26:12
For she in pouring this ointment on my body hath done it for my burial.

Mark 14:8
She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial.

Luke 24:12
But Peter rising up, ran to the sepulchre and, stooping down, he saw the linen cloths laid by themselves: and went away wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.

John 11:44
And presently he that had been dead came forth, bound feet and hands with winding bands. And his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus said to them: Loose him and let him go.

John 12:7
Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of my burial.

John 20:5
And when he stooped down, he saw the linen cloths lying: but yet he went not in.

John 20:7
And the napkin that had been about his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but apart, wrapped up into one place.

Acts 5:6
And the young men rising up, removed him, and carrying him out, buried him.

John 19:39
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