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 mixture of myrrh and <WSD>aloes</WSD> , and the others had gone home to mourn . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a purgative made from the leaves of aloe