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Who is this(A) coming up from the wilderness
like columns of smoke,
scented with myrrh and frankincense(B)
from every fragrant powder of the merchant?

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Who is this coming up from the wilderness(A)
    like a column of smoke,
perfumed with myrrh(B) and incense
    made from all the spices(C) of the merchant?

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

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Footnotes

  1. 19:39 Lit a hundred litrai; a Roman litrai = 12 ounces

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

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Footnotes

  1. John 19:39 Or about 34 kilograms