They washed the dead, and anointed them, to fit them for their burying, and especially to show their hope of the resurrection; which some think St. Paul alludes unto, 1 Corinthians 15:29.
Related Commentaries of Acts 9:37
Acts 9:37
37 And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.