Sentence:  Perhaps after the <WSD>soldiers</WSD> had laid him on the ground , while Joseph of Arimathea was at Pontius Pilate 's asking for Christ 's body , Nicodemus was gathering his mixture of myrrh and aloes , and the others had gone home to mourn . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army