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Nicodemus

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Named at John 3:1 as a man of the Pharisees, a ruler of the Jews. At 3:2–4 he comes to Jesus by night and says, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God”; Jesus answers him, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom,” and Nicodemus asks, “How can a man be born when he is old?” At 3:9–10 he asks, “How can these things be?”, and Jesus answers him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things?” At John 7:45–52 the officers come to the chief priests and Pharisees, who ask them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”, and the officers answer, “No man ever spoke like this man!”; when the Pharisees answer them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you? Have any of the rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him?”, Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) says to them, “Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?” They answer him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.” John 19:38–39 says that when Joseph of Arimathaea, with Pilate’s permission, took away Jesus’ body, Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds; and at 19:40 they take Jesus’ body and bind it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.

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JHN 3:1–21, engwebp
¹Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
²He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”
³Jesus answered him, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”
⁴Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”
⁵Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and Spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.
⁶That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
⁷Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must all be born anew.’
⁸The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
⁹Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?”
¹⁰Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things?
¹¹Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness.
¹²If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
¹³No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.
¹⁴As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
¹⁵that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
¹⁷For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
¹⁸He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only born Son of God.
¹⁹This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil.
²⁰For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
²¹But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”
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JHN 7:45–53, engwebp
⁴⁵The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”
⁴⁶The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”
⁴⁷The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?
⁴⁸Have any of the rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him?
⁴⁹But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”
⁵⁰Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,
⁵¹“Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”
⁵²They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”
⁵³Everyone went to his own house,
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JHN 19:38–42, engwebp
³⁸After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body.
³⁹Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.
⁴⁰So they took Jesus’ body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.
⁴¹Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.
⁴²Then, because of the Jews’ Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand), they laid Jesus there.
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Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

John 3:4 Open that verse

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”

John 3:9 Open that verse

Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?”

John 7:50 Open that verse

Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,

John 19:39 Open that verse

Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.

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Entry: Nicodemus (person-nicodemus)
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Current wording: Named at John 3:1 as a man of the Pharisees, a ruler of the Jews. At 3:2–4 he comes to Jesus by night and says, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God”; Jesus answers him, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom,” and Nicodemus asks, “How can a man be born when he is old?” At 3:9–10 he asks, “How can these things be?”, and Jesus answers him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things?” At John 7:45–52 the officers come to the chief priests and Pharisees, who ask them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”, and the officers answer, “No man ever spoke like this man!”; when the Pharisees answer them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you? Have any of the rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him?”, Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) says to them, “Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?” They answer him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.” John 19:38–39 says that when Joseph of Arimathaea, with Pilate’s permission, took away Jesus’ body, Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds; and at 19:40 they take Jesus’ body and bind it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.
Cited evidence: JHN 3:1–21, engwebp / JHN 7:45–53, engwebp / JHN 19:38–42, engwebp
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