NICODEMUS by NIGHT

NICODEMUS by NIGHT

In the last chapter, Jesus did not ‘trust’ himself to people who ‘trusted’ in him because of his signs (2:23–24). Over the coming chapters, many people come to Jesus because of his signs—the Samaritan woman (4:29), the official whose son is healed (4:47), the paralytic (5:9), the crowd who were fed (6:14), the blind man (9:25)—who all need to move on from trusting in the signs to faith in Jesus himself. The first is Nicodemus, a Pharisee and ‘a ruler of the Jews’, a member of the Sanhedrin, the Jewish council (3:1). He is a man of influence and wealth (he buys spices in 19:39), whom Jesus calls ‘a teacher of Israel’, a theologian perhaps!…