Sentence:  Perhaps after the soldiers had laid him on the ground , while Joseph of Arimathea was at Pontius Pilate 's asking for Christ 's body , Nicodemus was gathering his <WSD>mixture</WSD> of myrrh and aloes , and the others had gone home to mourn . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (chemistry) a substance consisting of two or more substances mixed together (not in fixed proportions and not with chemical bonding)