Bible Verses About Embalming: How Performed by the Jews

And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.

And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.

Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.