Jesus Teaches Nicodemus

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

² He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi,^(A) we know^(B) that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs^(C) you are doing if God were not with him.”^(D)

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

⁵¹ “Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing?”