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 pounds’ weight.
Jesus answered and said to him, Are you a leader of Israel, and do not know these things?
But, lo, he speaks boldly, and they say nothing to him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is really the Christ?