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] 40} Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen.^(B) This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs.^{(C) 41} At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.