Sentence:  Perhaps after the soldiers had laid him on the ground , while Joseph of Arimathea was at Pontius Pilate 's asking for Christ 's <WSD>body</WSD> , 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:  the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)