1There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
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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.
Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived? …
Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-21)We found, in the close of the foregoing chapter, that few were brought to Christ at Jerusalem; yet here was one , a considerable one. It is worth while to go a great way for the salvation though but of one soul . Observe, I. Who this Nicodemus was. Not many mighty and noble are called; yet some are, and here was one. Not many of the rulers, or of the Pharisees ; yet. 1. This was a man of the Phari…
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