Jesus Teaches Nicodemus

3 Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus^(A) who was a member of the Jewish ruling council.^(B)

³⁹ He was accompanied by Nicodemus,^(A) the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.^[a]

⁴⁷ “You mean he has deceived you also?”^(A) the Pharisees retorted. ⁴⁸ “Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?^{(B) 49} No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law—there is a curse on them.”

⁵⁰ Nicodemus,^(C) who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of their own number, asked,

¹⁰ “You are Israel’s teacher,”^(A) said Jesus, “and do you not understand these things?

¹³ Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers and the people,