Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
Nicodemus, who had first come to Jesus at night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about a hundred pounds.
Jesus answered him, “You are the teacher of Israel, and yet you don’t understand these things?
Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people,
Look, he is speaking publicly, and they say nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that he is the Christ?