John 3:1

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

Now there was a Pharisee, a leader of the Jews, named Nicodemus.

Cross References

John 19:39

Nicodemus, the man who first came to Jesus one night, also went with him [i.e., to claim Jesus’ body]. He brought about a seventy-five pound mixture of myrrh and aloes [i.e., aromatic spices used for embalming].

John 3:10

Jesus answered him, “Are you a teacher of the Israelites and [yet] you do not understand these things?

Luke 23:13

Then Pilate called together the leading priests, the [Jewish] leaders and the people,

John 7:26

And look, he is speaking openly and they are not saying anything to him [about it]. Can it be that the [Jewish] authorities know that he really is the Messiah [i.e., the Christ, God’s specially chosen one]?