He came to Jesus at night, sneaking off to see the man behind the miracles. He was a powerful Pharisee, a member of the Sanhedrin, the Jewish ruling council. He wasn't supposed to mix with the ...

Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes − about 75 pounds. Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it with the spices. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs.

Nicodemus was a member of the Jewish supreme court, the 71-member Sanhedrin, who privately became convinced of Jesus’ divinity and visited him clandestinely at night in John 3:1-21. The Revs.

Here's when we sense that Nicodemus begins to understand what Jesus is saying: when Jesus reinterprets the story of Israel in the wilderness, drawing from the language that has oriented Nicodemus's ...

Throughout the Bible, ... Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about 75 pounds. Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen.