There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
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Bede
AD 735
His rank is given, A ruler of the Jews; and then what he did, This man came to Jesus by night: hoping, that is, by so secret an interview, to learn more of the mysteries of the faith; the late public miracle shaving given him an elementary knowledge of them.
