[NYer]

When they prepared the body, would they have cleaned the body at one of these two events, (either Nicodemus or the women)?

Actually, Matthew records ...

57

³⁴ When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph, who was himself a disciple of Jesus.

58

He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus; then Pilate ordered it to be handed over.

59

Taking the body, Joseph wrapped it (in) clean linen

60

and laid it in his new tomb that he had hewn in the rock. Then he rolled a huge stone across the entrance to the tomb and departed.

* * * * *

Mary Magdalene intended to return with the other women after the Sabath, to properly prepare the body but it was gone.

[Netizen]

So much for the clean linen. It looks like after Joseph of Arimathea wrapped the body in the clean linen that later that night Nicodemus and someone (Joseph of Arimathea?) re-wrapped the body, and this time in the same, but dirty linen.

John 19
39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

Anointing?

[Netizen]

Your post makes me wonder. How many times did Jesus need to have his body anointed for burial?

Matthew 26
12 For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.

Mark 14
8 She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

John 19
39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

Was this an anointing or was it something else?

250 aloe {al-o-ay'}
1) aloe, aloes

++++ The name of an aromatic tree which grows in eastern India and Cochin China, and whose soft and bitter wood the Orientals used in fumigation and in embalming the dead. The tree grows to a height of 120 feet (40 m) and a girth of 12 feet (4 m).

This is interesting because embalming is not a Jewish custom. Embalming is an Egyptian custom.

Embalming was never practised in Israel: the two examples known, those of Jacob and Joseph, are explicitly ascribed to Egyptian custom ( Gn 50: 2-3).

[source:
ANCIENT ISRAEL Its Life and Institutions
by ROLAND de VAUX, O.P.
Translated by JOHN MCHUGH
MCGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC. NEW YORK TORONTO LONDON - 1961)
page 56

Genesis 50
2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.