There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
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.
Jesus answered and said to him, Are you a master of Israel, and know not these things?
But, see, he speaks boldly, and they say nothing to him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?