There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:

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?

Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?

Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)

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.

And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:

When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.

All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen. It was written to Titus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Cretians, from Nicopolis of Macedonia.

But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.