You Must Be Born Again: John 3:1-21

Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council.

Nicodemus. A Pharisee—devout, learned, zealous for the Law. A member of the Sanhedrin—the ruling council, the seventy who governed religious life in Israel. This was no ordinary seeker.

He came to Jesus at night and said, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.

At night. The timing was deliberate—privacy, perhaps embarrassment, perhaps fear. A Sanhedrin member visiting an upstart rabbi was risky.