Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 19:39
Nicodemus - See on John 3:1 ; (note), etc. Myrrh and aloes - Which drugs were used to preserve bodies from putrefaction. Calmet says that the aloes mentioned here is a liquor which runs from an aromatic tree, and is widely different from that called aloes among us. Some have objected that a hundred pounds' weight of myrrh and aloes was enough to embalm two hundred dead bodies; and instead of ἑκατον , a hundred, some critics have proposed to read ἑκατερων - a mixture of myrrh... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 19:39
And there came also Nicodemus ,.... To the cross, at the same time as Joseph did; who, whether they were brethren, as some conjecture, and met here by consent, since one prepared one thing, and another, for the interment of Christ, is not certain. This Nicodemus is thought to be the same with Nicodemus ben Gorion, the Talmudists speaks of, who, they say F21 T. Bab. Gittin, fol. 56. 1. , was one of the three rich men in Jerusalem; as this appears to be a rich man, from the large... read more