Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 9:37

37 And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.

They washed the dead, and anointed them, to fit them for their burying, and especially to shew their hope of the Resurrection; which some think St. Paul alludes unto, 1 Cor. 15.29.