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# Nicodemus
Nicodemus was one of the Pharisees who believed in Jesus. See how you translated this name in [John 3:1](../03/01.md).
# myrrh and aloes
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These are plant substances that smell nice and that people used to prepare a body for burial.
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# about one hundred litras
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You may convert this to a the measure system used in your area. The word "litra" was used for measures of about 300 grams of solids or about 300 milliliters of liquids. Because myrrh and aloes were more like solids than liquids, the measurement here is probably of weight, about 30 kilograms, rather than of volume, about 30 liters. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-bweight]])