There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
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 unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?