Pharisee and member of the council · First century AD
Nicodemus in the Bible
He comes at night with a compliment and is told he must be born again. He later reminds the council that the law hears a man first, and finally brings a hundredweight of myrrh and aloes to a burial that ends his cover.
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5 occurrences across 5 verses in the King James Version.
- John 3:1
There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
Read in context - John 3:4
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
Read in context - John 3:9
Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
Read in context - John 7:50
Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,) to Jesus: Gr. to him
Read in context - 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.
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