And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
And there came also Nicodemus, (which at the first came to Jesus by night). It is manifestly the Evangelist's design to direct his readers' attention to the timidity of both these friends of Jesus in their attachment to Him, when he says that the one was for fear of the Jews only a secret disciple, and reminds us that the visit of the other to Jesus at the outset of His ministry was made by night.
And brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight - an immense quantity, betokening the greatness of their love, but part of it probably intended, as Meyer says, as a layer for the spot on which the body was to lie. (See 2 Chronicles 16:14.)