Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
And Nicodemus also came (he who at the first came to Jesus by night) bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.
Jesus answered and said to him, Thou are the teacher of Israel, and do not understand these things?
And Pilate having called together the chief priests, and the rulers, and the people,
And lo, he speaks in public, and they say nothing to him. Perhaps the rulers really know that this really is the Christ?