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, who at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pound weight.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Are you a Teacher of Israel, and know not these things?
But, lo, he speaks boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?