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Nicodemus

Pharisee in John

Pharisee and ruler of the Jews who speaks with in John's Gospel.

5 appearances1 Bible books1 known aliases

Who or what is this?

and ruler of the who comes to by night in John 3 and hears that one must be born again to see the kingdom of God. The conversation leads into the saying that God so loved the world that he gave his only Son. He later defends Jesus in the council, asking whether the law judges a man without first giving him a hearing, and joins in burying Jesus, bringing a costly mixture of myrrh and aloes.

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