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Nicodemus

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

Pharisee in John1 Bible book3 chapters5 verse appearances

Who 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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