There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicode´mus, 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 Nicode´mus, which 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, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?