Mat 27:62-66 are peculiar to St Matthew. St Mark notes the wonder of Pilate that Jesus was already dead, and the evidence of the centurion to the fact. St John mentions the co-operation of Nicodemus—like Joseph, a member of the Sanhedrin, who ‘consented not to the deed of them;’ who brought ‘a mixture of myrrh and aloes about a hundred pound weight.’