What Is Aloes in the Bible?
Plant
A wood with a fine smell. The body of Jesus was perfumed with myrrh and aloes.
A detail
- Careful: it is not the aloe vera we use today; it is another plant.
Where it appears in the Bible
John 19:39
What the Bible says
John 19:39
And Nicodemus also came, (he who at the first came to Jesus by night,) bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “áloe”; John 19:39