en_tn/jhn/19/39.md

# 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

These are plant substances that smell nice and that people used to prepare a body for burial.

# about seventy-five pounds in weight.

You may convert this to a the measure system used in your area. The word translated "pint" here probably refers to a weight of about a third of a kilogram . Alternate translation: "about 33 kilograms in weight" or "weighing about thirty-three kilograms" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-bweight]])

# seventy-five

"75" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])